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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense ...
Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine ...
John Tenniel's illustration of Alice and the pig from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice is a fictional child living during the middle of the Victorian era. [2] In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which takes place on 4 May, [nb 1] the character is widely assumed to be seven years old; [3] [4] Alice gives her age as seven and a half in the sequel, which takes place on 4 ...
The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by J. Tenniel, with an Introduction and Notes by M. Gardner. The New American Library, New York, 345 pp. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lib.virginia.edu; Dawkins, R. & Krebs, J. R. (1979). Arms races between and within species.
The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland is reimagined as Queen Redd, the enemy and aunt of the heroine, Alyss. She kills Alyss's parents and usurps the throne of Wonderland. The true Queen of Hearts in this story is Genevieve Heart, Alyss's mother as an apparent re-imagining of the White Queen. Alyss is, therefore, the Princess of Hearts.
A spin-off of the traditional Alice in Wonderland story, Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars features a character named Hatter Madigan, a member of an elite group of bodyguards known in Wonderland as the "Millinery" after the business of selling women's hats. He acts as the bodyguard of the rightful Queen, and as guide/guardian to the ...
In the video game adaptation of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Thackery Earwicket is a playable character. He uses his telekinesis to defeat the Bandersnatch . In the manga Alice in the Country of Hearts the March Hare is called Elliot March and is Blood Dupre's (the Hatter's) right-hand man.
The Real Alice in Wonderland, a children's book by Cathy Rubin, writing as C. M. Rubin. [31] The Real Alice in Wonderland: A Role Model for All Ages, was Written with Rubin's daughter Gabriella. Alice Liddell, was the aunt of one of Rubin's great-aunts. [32] [33] [34] Rubin was born in Georgetown, Guyana. [35]