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Wonderland, the surreal and whimsical setting of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, is a place where conventional geography and logic are turned upside down. Alice enters this bizarre world through a rabbit hole, leading her to a hall of doors, each offering passage to different, unpredictable parts of Wonderland.
The Nursery "Alice" (1889/90) [1] is an abridged version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". It includes 20 of John Tenniel 's illustrations from the original book, redrawn, enlarged, coloured – and, in some cases, revised – by Tenniel himself.
[1] [2] The concept gave rise to "The Unbirthday Song" in the 1951 animated feature film Alice in Wonderland. [3] In Through the Looking-Glass, Humpty Dumpty is wearing a cravat (which Alice at first mistakes for a belt) which he says was given to him as an "un-birthday present" by the White King and Queen. He then has Alice calculate the ...
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 observes three playing cards painting white roses red. They drop to the ground face down at the approach of the Queen of Hearts, whom Alice has never met. When the Queen arrives, along with the King and their ten children, and asks Alice who is lying on the ground (since the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she does not know.
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"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable is a retelling by Mrs. J. C. Gorham of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, written in 1905 and published by A. L. Burt of New York. It is part of Burt's Series of One Syllable Books , which was "selected specially for young people's reading, and told in simple language for youngest readers".