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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was conceived on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the river Isis with the three young daughters of Carroll's friend Henry Liddell: [8] [9] Lorina Charlotte (aged 13; "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance (aged 10; "Secunda" in the verse); and Edith Mary (aged 8; "Tertia" in the verse).
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 ...
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 175 languages. [1] [2] The language with the most editions of the Alice in Wonderland novels in translation is Japanese, with 1,271 editions. [3] Some translations, with the first date of publishing and of reprints or re-editions by other publishers, are:
The Alice books by Lewis Carroll (19th century) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, are an extraordinary brace of books, written by the ...
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream; Alice in Orchestralia; Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland; Alice Through the Needle's Eye; Alice, the Zeta Cat and Climate Change; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable; ArchEnemy; Automated Alice
1890 – The Nursery "Alice" by Lewis Carroll himself, a short version of the story written for little children. 1895 – A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, a novel by Anna M. Richards in which a different Alice, Alice Lee, travels to Wonderland and meets many of the characters of Carroll's books as well as others.
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The Annotated Alice is a 1960 book by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as the original illustrations by John Tenniel.