Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children’s literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures.
COMPLETE TEXT FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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Original 1865 cover for Alice in Wonderland
PLOT SUMMARY
A girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her older sister, who is reading aloud. Alice takes interest in a passing white rabbit that is dressed in a waistcoat and muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” She follows the rabbit down a rabbit hole, then finds herself falling down into a dreamlike world. As she continues to try to follow the rabbit, she has several adventures. She grows to gigantic size and then shrinks to a fraction of her original height, meets a group of small animals swimming in a sea of her own (previously shed) tears, and gets trapped in the rabbit’s house when she enlarges herself again. After meeting the Duchess, she carries away a baby which changes into a pig, then meets the Cheshire cat, which disappears, leaving only its smile behind. She joins the Mad Hatter and the March Hare at a never-ending tea party, goes to the seashore and meets a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle, and finally attends the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who has been accused of stealing tarts. Just as Alice defies the Queen of Hearts, the dream ends and Alice wakes up at the picnic with her sister.
CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
POEMS AND SONGS
* “All in the golden afternoon…” (the prefatory verse, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice’s adventures underground)
* “How Doth the Little Crocodile” (a parody of Isaac Watts’ nursery rhyme, “Against Idleness And Mischief”)
* “The Mouse’s Tale” (an example of concrete poetry)
* “You Are Old, Father William” (a parody of Robert Southey’s “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them”)
* The Duchess’ lullaby: “Speak roughly to your little boy…”(a parody of David Bates’ “Speak Gently”)
* “Twinkle, twinkle little bat…” (a parody of Twinkle twinkle little star)
* The Lobster Quadrille (a parody of Mary Botham Howitt’s “The Spider and the Fly”)
* “‘Tis the Voice of the Lobster” (a parody of “The Sluggard”)
* Turtle Soup (a parody of James M. Sayles’ “Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star”)
* “The Queen of Hearts…” (an actual nursery rhyme)
* “They told me you had been to her…” (the White Rabbit’s evidence)
hi have you a picture or know where i can find one of the cover of the alice in wonderland book befor the re-print was done. thanks.