Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Name: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll

Classic Novels

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Language: English
First published: 1865
Reading time: 114 minutes
Chapters: 12 chapters

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Bored on a riverbank one summer afternoon, Alice sees a White Rabbit with a pocket watch hurry past, follows it down a rabbit-hole and lands in a world where nothing behaves as it should.

She grows and shrinks, swims in a pool of her own tears and meets the Caterpillar, the Duchess, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter. Lewis Carroll's story of 1865, full of nonsense verse and word play, changed children's books by setting out to delight rather than to teach. It is short enough to read aloud over a few evenings, and adults enjoy its jokes and puzzles just as much.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought…

Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole

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Project Gutenberg (eBook #11)
Text version
Project Gutenberg eBook #11 (updated 26 June 2025), downloaded 7 November 2026: "The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0". Text only: the file has no illustrations and does not include the introductory poem. The title lines, the contents list and two bracketed blocks added by the e-text's editor in Chapter X ("[later editions continued as follows ...]", with lines from Carroll's later revisions of two poems) were not imported. The 12 chapters are otherwise unchanged; each of Carroll's three-row breaks of stars is shown as one scene break.
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Classic Novels
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