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Readers who delight in wordplay, riddles and comic logic will love this story, as will those who enjoy questioning, outspoken heroes and a strange new setting in every chapter.
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What would you do if you saw a rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket? Alice, bored and sleepy on a riverbank, does not stop to think. She runs after the White Rabbit and jumps down his hole, into a place where size, time and good manners change without warning.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a teacher of mathematics at Oxford, and was published in 1865.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Curiosity sends Alice tumbling down the rabbit holeFree
- 2Every fix for her size causes a fresh problem
- 3Strange races and a Rabbit's house in turmoil
- 4The Caterpillar asks the question Alice cannot answer
- 5A pig, a grinning cat and a tea party without end
- 6The Queen's garden and a court waiting for her
- 7Alice asks who she is and how big she can be
- 8Nonsense logic shows how power and manners really work
- 9A calm voice, borrowed rhymes and a chain of episodes
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Curiosity sends Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole
The story opens on a riverbank. Alice sits beside her sister, bored, because her sister's book has no pictures or conversations in it. Then a White Rabbit with pink eyes hurries past, muttering that he will be late.
A talking rabbit does not shock her. A rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch does. Burning with curiosity, Alice follows him into a large hole under the hedge, without once asking how she will get out again.
The fall is strange. The well is lined with cupboards, bookshelves and maps, and Alice lifts a jar labeled orange marmalade, only to find it empty. She lands unhurt and finds a little door only fifteen inches high. Beyond it lies the loveliest garden she has ever seen, but she is far too big to get through.
Then come the bottle and the cake. Alice drinks and shrinks to ten inches tall, and only then remembers that she left the key on the table above her reach. Every cure in Wonderland comes with a new problem.
Curiosity opens the door to Wonderland, and Alice walks through it before she has any plan.
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Who’s who
- Alice
- A curious, polite and stubborn young girl who follows a rabbit underground and wants to reach a lovely garden while keeping her sense of who she is.
- The White Rabbit
- A fretful rabbit in a waistcoat who is always late, fears the Duchess and the Queen, and keeps losing his gloves and fan.
- The Caterpillar
- A blue caterpillar on a mushroom who smokes a hookah, contradicts Alice, and asks her who she is.
- The Cheshire Cat
- A grinning cat who appears and vanishes at will, calls everyone mad, and gives Alice puzzling but friendly directions.
- The Hatter
- A riddling tea-drinker whose watch tells the day of the month and whose quarrel with Time leaves it always six o'clock.
- The March Hare
- The Hatter's companion at the endless tea party, who offers wine that is not there and insists on saying exactly what he means.
- The Queen of Hearts
- A furious card-pack ruler who answers every problem by ordering a beheading and wants her croquet game won her way.
- The Duchess
- A bad-tempered noblewoman who nurses a baby in a peppery kitchen and later cannot stop finding morals in everything.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 25,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 1 h 45 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary; paperback, hardcover and large print at cost
- LanguagesEnglish and 14 other languages
Questions about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about?
A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole while chasing a White Rabbit and wanders through a strange land. She changes size, meets odd creatures, plays croquet with a furious Queen, and tries to reach a lovely garden.
Who wrote Alice in Wonderland and when was it published?
Lewis Carroll wrote it. That is the pen name of Charles Dodgson, who taught mathematics at Oxford. The book appeared in 1865 and was followed by a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
What does the Cheshire Cat mean when it says everyone is mad?
The Cat tells Alice that everyone there is mad, including Alice herself, because otherwise she would not have come there. It argues that it is mad because it growls when pleased, which sets the playful tone of the book's logic.
Is Alice in Wonderland easy to read?
The chapters are short and each has its own scene, from a tea party to a croquet game. The language is plain, the dialogue is lively, and the funny riddles and songs make it enjoyable to read aloud.
What is the main message of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Alice keeps her good sense in a world of nonsense. The book shows a child asking who she is, challenging unfair rules, and speaking up to those in power, while having fun with words and logic.
Cite this edition
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland.
Carroll, L. (2026). Alice's adventures in Wonderland. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland (Original work published 1865)
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland.
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