Description
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1865,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies.
Like the first, this second edition includes Carroll's earlier story
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which allows readers to trace the revisions and to compare Carroll's own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This edition also includes new appendix material: George MacDonald writing on the fantastic, the eighteenth-century children's story Goody Two-Shoes, a section on film and television adaptations of Alice, and new illustrations.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Lewis Carroll: A Brief Chronology
- A Note on the Text
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Appendix A: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
- Appendix B: Lewis Carroll, The Nursery Alice (1890)
- Appendix C: Lewis Carroll, “Alice on the Stage” (1886)
- Appendix D: From Lewis Carroll’s Diaries and Letters (1862-90)
- Appendix E: Remembering Lewis Carroll
- Appendix F: George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)
- Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Appendix H: Poems Parodied in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Appendix I: Contemporary Children’s Literature
- Appendix J: Notable Film and Television Productions
- Appendix K: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell
- Appendix L: Quentin Massys’s An Old Woman [The Ugly Duchess] (1513)
- Select Bibliography
