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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 133 pages · about 2 hours
- First published 1865
- 3,547 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.
One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
- Fantasy
- Classics
- Fantasy & Magic
- Adventure
- Animals
- Fantasy literature
- Mythical Animals
- Juvenile Wit and humor
2 What to expect
A children's classic of pure nonsense: a girl falls down a rabbit hole into a world where logic keeps slipping. It is less a plot than a string of strange meetings, full of puns, riddles, parodied poems and arguments about rules that make no sense. The play with language and logic appeals to adults as much as to children, and the book is short, quick and funny, with a slightly unsettling edge.
Good for readers who want: wordplay and nonsense, a classic for any age, and a short read.
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Read it on the Internet Archive4 About Lewis Carroll
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
5 More by Lewis Carroll
6 Similar books
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- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
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