Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Lewis Carroll

ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, Jul 17, 2009 - Fiction

Alice's Adventures Under Ground was written for the children of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, on a boat trip in 1862 and published the following year. The story was later expanded to become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the story, a little girl Alice falls into a rabbit hole where she encounters strange creatures and dramatic situations. The story has captivated adults and children alike for generations.

About the author

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2009
• ISBN: 1442947241, 9781442947245
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary