Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Sunday, May 6th, 2012bLewis Carroll/bis the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). He wroteiAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ifor the amusement of eleven-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters, who were the daughters of the dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics. The book was published in 1865, and its first companion volume,iThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There/i, followed in 1871.Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank, and of having nothing to do…when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. Alice did not think it so very strange to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and then hurried on, she started to wonder! Running after the strange fellow, she was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole. Down jumped Alice after it (never considering how in the world she was to get out again) and she tumbled into a curious world inhabited by the Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and more…brbrWith his marvelous sense of the absurd, Lewis Carrolls whimsical, fantastical tale delighted children and adults when it was first published in 1865 and has since become a treasured classic of literature.