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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass (collective work) (edit title/settings)

by Lewis Carroll (Author) (edit contributors)

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Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of... read more

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  1. Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    by Lewis Carroll (Author)

    The classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Filled with humor, adventure, and imagination for children of all ages. The fantastical tale begins when Alice falls into a rabbit hole, literally a...

  2. Through the Looking-Glass

    Through the Looking-Glass

    And What Alice Found There

    by Lewis Carroll (Author)

    The 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantasy land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, insects, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when...

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A little girl named Alice is sitting in the sunshine watching her sister read a book when all of a sudden she sees a little rabbit and chases it down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland. She learns from many different animals and creatures how to treat people and to think before she... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A little girl named Alice is sitting in the sunshine watching her sister read a book when all of a sudden she sees a little rabbit and chases it down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland. She learns from many different animals and creatures how to treat people and to think before she acts. She finally bumps into a Cheshire cat that tells her to go a certain way and then she finds herself again in a weird place with cards as guards and a Queen. The queen is in charge of the entire garden and her palace. She says left and right to cards and any other animal or thing, off with their head. But when she says it to Alice she gets a fair trial where she finds these mushrooms in her pocket that makes her big and the guards attack her when she finally wakes up from a dream.

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Alice: Main character; young, imaginative yet sometimes stubborn little girl with a great imagination; talks to herself
  • Humpty Dumpty: a human egg sitting on a wall. the one from the poem.
  • Knight: A chess player; helps Alice get to the eighth square and become Queen.
  • Dinah: Alice's Cat
  • Bill: the lizard
  • White Rabbit: Helper to the King and Queen of Hearts; has several pairs of white kid gloves and fans
  • Carpenter: aids in the killing of the oysters alongside The Walrus in the poem told by Tweedledee and Tweedledum
  • Hare: Add a description of this character.
  • Mock turtle: Always sad; tells stories
  • Hatta: One of the Red King's messengers, either to come or to go.
  • Tweedledee: round; likes to say "Contrariwise" a lot.
  • Mouse: Falls into Alice's pool of tears; tells hard-to-understand stories and hates cats and dogs
  • The Knave of hearts: Persecuted for stealing the Queen of Hearts' tarts
  • The Queen of Hearts: Rather mean; orders practically her whole court to be executed; likes croquet
  • Dormouse: Very sleepy at the Mad Hatter's tea party; talks in his sleep
  • Mad Hatter: Constantly has tea with the March Hare and Dormouse
  • Duchess: Ugly; rather afraid of the Queen of Hearts
  • Cheshire Cat: Has a grin; can disappear one limb/feature at a time
  • Gryphon: Takes Alice to see the Mock Turtle
  • Tweedledum: Round; is brother of Tweedledum; thinks Alice is part of the Red King's dream.
  • The March Hare: Always has tea with the Mad Hatter and Doormouse
  • Caterpillar: sits on a mushroom, smokes a hooka and is exactly 3 inches tall. He asks Alice "Who are you?"
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “One side makes you grow taller, one side makes you grow smaller.”
    Caterpillar
  • “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    Alice
  • “Off with his head!”
    The Red Queen
  • “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
    The Mad Hatter
  • “"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.""How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."”
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and the Cheshire Cat
  • “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder where you're at. Up above the world you fly. Like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.......”
    The Mad Hatter, the Doormouse, and the March Hare
  • “Why, sometimes I've believed in more than six impossible things before breakfast.”
    The White Queen
  • “For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
  • “You alarm me! I feel faint. Give me a ham sandwich!”
  • “Life, what is it but a dream?”

First Sentence edit see section history

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting with her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Table of Contents edit see section history

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


1. Down the Rabbit-Hole
2. The Pool of Tears
3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
5. Advice from a Caterpillar
6. Pig and Pepper
7. A Mad Tea-Party
8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
9. The Mock Turtle's Story
10. The Lobster Quadrille
11. Who Stole the Tarts?
12. Alice's Evidence


Through the Looking Glass


1. Looking-glass House
2. The Garden of Live Flowers
3. Looking-glass Insects
4. Tweeledum and Tweedledee
5. Wool and Water
6. Humpty Dumpty
7. The Lion and the Unicorn
8. "It's My Own Invention"
9. Queen Alice
10. Shaking
11. Waking
12. Which Dreamed It?

Glossary edit see section history

  • Jabberwocky: dragon-like monster
  • Gryphon: a mythical monster, part eagle, part lion
  • Bryllg: the time of broiling dinner, i.e the close of the afternoon
  • Slythy: smooth and active
  • Tove: a species of Badger; they have smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag; lives chiefly on cheese
  • Gyre: to scratch like a dog
  • Gymble: to screw out holes in anything
  • Wabe: the side of the hill
  • Mimsy: unhappy
  • Borogove: an extinct species of Parrot; they had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials; lived on veal
  • Mome: grave; solemn
  • Rath: a species of land turtle; head erect, mouth like a shark, the front forelegs curved out so that the animal walks on its knees, smooth green bpdy; lived on swallows and oysters
  • Outgrabe: past tense of the verb to outgribe; squeaked
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Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Alice. (standard series)
This book is in Illustrated Junior Library. (publisher edition list)
This is book 195 of 194 in Shelfari Most Popular (December 2010). (authoritative list)
This is book 164 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2010). (authoritative list)
This book is in Modern Library Classics. (publisher edition list)
This book is in School Library (Школьная Библиотека). (publisher edition list)
This book is in Folio Society. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Penguin Classics. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Parragon Children's Classics. (publisher edition list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lewis Carroll (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. John Tenniel (Illustrator)
  2. Fritz Kredel - In the 1946 special edition box set, Fritz Kredel colored the original illustrations created by John Tenniel

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan
Country: England
Publication Date: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 400

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PR4611.A4 G7
  • Dewey: 823.8

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Good book, WILL keep kids interested!! Children younger than 9 will also enjoy this book if they are able to have occasional 'tricky words' explained to them.

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

  • Project Gutenberg: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, free e-book, full text
  • Project Gutenberg: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, free e-book, full text
  • Librivox: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Free audio book, Read by Peter Yearsley, Total running time: 2:43:00
  • Librivox: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Free audio book, Read by Adrian Praetzellis, Total running time: 3:24:13

Movie Connections edit see section history

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, volume 1 of 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, ... City of Oz, and The Patchwork Girl Of Oz.
  • 8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess ... Of Oz, The Magic of Oz, and Glinda Of Oz
  • Alice's Adventures Under Ground
  • Alice's Adventures Under Ground: The Story That Became Alice in Wonderland
  • Jabberwocky
  • Jabberwocky

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Annotated Alice
  • Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
  • Wonderland: The Zen of Alice
  • All Things Alice

Books Influenced by This Book edit see section history

   
  • The Maxx: Volume 5
  • Automated Alice
  • Alice Redux
  • Lost Girls
  • Arkham Asylum
  • The Looking Glass Wars

Books That Cite This Book edit see section history

   
  • This Book Is Overdue!
  • Preludes & Nocturnes

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