Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea
what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was
conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend
Alice Liddell. In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front
Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig;
time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a
7-year-old a Queen.
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Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford,
where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent
the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a
constitutional stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. He never
married, but was very fond of children and spent much time with them. His
most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the
Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the
daughter of the dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in
1898.
