ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel
First published in 1865, this famous novel tells the story of a girl called Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by anthropomorphic creatures. The novel’s genre has been termed as literary nonsense, which has had an enormous influence in literature, in particular on the fantasy genre.
On 26 November Carroll gave Alice Liddell the handwritten manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by himself, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer’s Day". But before Alice received her copy, Carroll was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the episodes featuring the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. This later version was to be called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It was published late in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name, which had first been used nine years earlier. The illustrations this time were by Sir John Tenniel, as Carroll felt that a published book deserved the skills of a professional artist. Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations are provided in this version of the text.