Alice's Adventures Under Ground

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About this book

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) wrote out this early version of his famous Alice story by hand, and the book reproduces that manuscript in print with thirty-seven illustrations by the author himself. It was later developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

On a hot afternoon a bored girl sitting beside her sister notices a white rabbit with a watch in its waistcoat pocket and hurries after it down a rabbit-hole. She falls past cupboards, shelves and maps, finds a tiny golden key, a door eighteen inches high and a bottle labelled DRINK ME, and soon shrinks to ten inches.

Four chapters carry her on, from the pool of tears and a caterpillar's advice to the Queen's croquet-ground and the Mock Turtle's story. Reading it gives a look at the tale in its first, shorter form.

About the author

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature.