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- The character of Alice is based on a real girl, called Alice Liddell, who was one of the author’s child-friends.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1865
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. With its fantastical tales and riddles , it became one of the most popular works of English-language fiction.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: summary. The novel begins with a young girl named Alice, who is bored with a book she is reading outside, following a smartly-dressed rabbit down a rabbit hole. She falls a long way until she finds herself in a room full of locked doors. However, she finds a key, but it’s for a door that’s too small for her.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Full Book Summary. Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day, drowsily reading over her sister’s shoulder, when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (the real name of Lewis Carroll, the author) often told stories to his child-friends, amongst which Aliceand her sisters. Sometimes these stories, which he made up on the spot, were told when they were visiting him in his rooms, sometimes on other occasions, like river picknicks. The first version of the story of “Alice’s A...
Dodgson’s friend and novelist Henry Kingsley saw the text, even before Dodgson had presented the completed manuscript to Alice, and encouraged him to publish the book. Dodgson asked advice from his other friend, George MacDonald, an author of children’s books. MacDonald took the manuscript home to read it to his children, and his six-year-old son G...
As the book was an immediate success, a second edition was printed soon, consisting of two print runs of 2,000 each in September 1866. It was published in November 1866. By the end of 1866, 5,000 copies had already been sold. The third edition (2,000 copies) therefore appeared in 1867, as did the fourth (2,500 copies). The fifth appeared in 1868 (J...
Even after publishing the story, Dodgson kept improving it. Every new edition showed some small changes compared to the previous one, which Dodgson called ‘errata’. Up to 1868, the text was printed in letter press, so Dodgson was able to make corrections easily. After 1868, the pages were set in electrotype, which meant only minor corrections were ...
Although Dodgson was very picky about the looks of his book in the UK, he was much less concerned about the quality of the books that were sold in America. Apparently he did not have a high opinion of the US book market. To limit his loss on the recalled first edition, he allowed the remaining printed but unbound copies of the recalled 1865 edition...
The original manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” was sold for the 1st time at Sotheby’s (Lot # 319) in 1928. Alice Hargreaves (Alice Liddell), then an almost seventy-year-old widow, probably needed the money to be able to maintain her country house after her income decreased after WWI, so she approached Sotheby’s about selling the origi...
The British copyrighton “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” expired in 1907. In Dodgson’s time, there were no international copyright laws as we know them now. This meant that foreign publishers were legally allowed to produce their own copies, without requiring permission or paying Dodgson or Macmillan for it. Although the first US edition (by Appl...
If you want to know more details about the transformation of the story from oral tales into a manuscript and into a printed version, or about printing and publishing details, I recommend reading the following excellent sources:
Bookleaves. “Today in literary history”. January, page 3, www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/4354/janlithistp3.html. Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll. Interviews and Recollections.University of Iowa Press, 1989. Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. The life and letters of Lewis Carroll. Project Gutenberg, 6 March 2004, www.gutenberg.org/files/11483/11483-h/1...
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