Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a surreal work of literary nonsense written by English author Charles Ludwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It is considered a classic example of English literature. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantastic realm populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.
The tales plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. Its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre. The book is commonly referred to by the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland, an alternative title popularized by the numerous stage, film and television adaptations of the story produced over the years.
Alice was first published on July 4, 1865, three years after Carroll told the story to three little girls. It took him two years to write it and he expanded the original 18,000 word story to 35,000, most notably adding the episodes about the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. The first print run of 2,000 was destroyed because the book’s illustrator objected to the print quality. A new edition was released in December and the entire print run sold out quickly.
