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What if a single rabbit leads you into a world where size, sense and manners refuse to stay still?
Alice sits bored beside her sister on a warm riverbank until the White Rabbit draws her underground. A bottle makes her shrink. A cake sends her shooting upward. As her size keeps changing, this curious, polite girl tries to make sense of a dream where even simple things become uncertain.
In Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll brings logic and jokes into a child's strange adventure. Alice meets the easily offended Mouse in a pool of her own tears and encounters the fierce Queen of Hearts, who expects obedience. Shorter and plainer than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this first form of the tale lets you discover where the familiar story begins.
What you’ll discover
- A fall into uncertainty Follow Alice away from a dull afternoon and into a dream with shifting rules.
- Small bites, startling changes Discover how a bottle and a cake turn Alice's own size into a constant surprise.
- Manners meet their match Watch a polite girl face creatures whose touchy tempers make conversation hard to navigate.
- A queen who commands Meet the quick-tempered Queen of Hearts and her strange court of playing cards.
- Wonderland at its beginning Explore the shorter, playful tale before it grows into the longer story you may know.
Who will love it
For readers who love Alice in Wonderland and want to see where it began, and for anyone who enjoys short, playful tales full of curious creatures, changing sizes and jokes that follow their own logic.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A rabbit leads Alice underground
- Growing and shrinking changes everything
- A court of odd and bossy creatures
- A handmade gift with a story behind it
Who’s who
- AliceA curious, polite young girl who follows a rabbit underground and tries to make sense of a world where the rules keep shifting.
- The White RabbitA hurried rabbit whose sudden appearance draws Alice away from the riverbank and into her strange adventure.
- The MouseA small creature Alice meets in the pool of her own tears, easily offended by her careless remarks.
- The Queen of HeartsA fierce, quick-tempered ruler of a court of playing cards, who gives orders and expects them to be obeyed.
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Les Aventures d’Alice sous terre
by Lewis Carroll · 1886
Alice follows a White Rabbit underground, where her size keeps changing and the rules refuse to stay put.
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A rabbit leads Alice underground
The tale opens on a warm day. Alice sits bored beside her sister on a riverbank, with nothing to do. Then a White Rabbit runs past, and Alice follows him without stopping to think. She tumbles down a deep hole, and the fall is so long that she has time to wonder where she will end up.
She lands in a long hall lined with doors, all of them locked. A small golden key opens a tiny door, and beyond it Alice glimpses a lovely garden. She is far too large to get through. The garden becomes the goal that pulls her through the whole story, always just out of reach.
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What is Alice's Adventures Under Ground about?
It is the first version of the Alice story. A girl named Alice follows a White Rabbit down a hole and meets strange creatures in a dream world where her size and the rules keep changing.
Is Alice's Adventures Under Ground the same as Alice in Wonderland?
No. It is the earlier, shorter manuscript that Carroll later expanded into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Both share the same heroine and opening, but the later book adds scenes and characters.
Who was the real Alice?
Alice Liddell was a girl Carroll knew in Oxford. He first told the story to her and her sisters on a river trip, then wrote it out by hand for her as a gift.
The author
Lewis Carroll
1832–1898 · English children's writer and mathematician
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Cheshire, England, in 1832. He lived and taught mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking-Glass (1871), and Sylvie and Bruno (1889). He died in Guildford, England, in 1898.
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