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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
12 chapters and parts · about 2 hours to read
What the book is about
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is a children's novel published in 1865. When a curious girl named Alice spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch, she tumbles down a rabbit hole into an extraordinary fantasy world filled with peculiar anthropomorphic creatures. This pioneering work of literary nonsense plays with logic and language, creating a whimsical tale that delights both children and adults. Illustrated by John Tenniel, it helped transform children's literature from didactic instruction to pure entertainment.
This summary comes from the Project Gutenberg catalogue, where it was written automatically.
- Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories
- Fantasy fiction
- Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction
Chapters
- Chapter IDown the Rabbit-Holeabout 11 minutes
- Chapter IIThe Pool of Tearsabout 10 minutes
- Chapter IIIA Caucus-Race and a Long Taleabout 8 minutes
- Chapter IVThe Rabbit Sends in a Little Billabout 13 minutes
- Chapter VAdvice from a Caterpillarabout 11 minutes
- Chapter VIPig and Pepperabout 13 minutes
- Chapter VIIA Mad Tea-Partyabout 11 minutes
- Chapter VIIIThe Queen’s Croquet-Groundabout 12 minutes
- Chapter IXThe Mock Turtle’s Storyabout 11 minutes
- Chapter XThe Lobster Quadrilleabout 10 minutes
- Chapter XIWho Stole the Tarts?about 9 minutes
- Chapter XIIAlice’s Evidenceabout 11 minutes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #11, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.
