Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Broadview Press, Sep 13, 2000 - Juvenile Fiction - 356 pages

First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July of 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a surreal world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside-down with their mind-boggling logic and word play, and their fantastic parodies. Carroll's fable illustrates his masterful ability to weave logic with nonsense in a tale that continues to delight all ages. While this great classic is widely available, the Broadview edition is unique. Richard Kelly combines Alice's Adventures in Wonderland not with the later (and largely distinct) work Through the Looking Glass but rather with Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll's first version of the story. Readers are thus able to trace the literary revisions, and to compare Caroll's own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Among the many other materials included in the Broadview Literary Texts edition are a substantial selection of early reviews, selections from Carroll's diaries and correspondence, Carroll's early nonsense poems, and the originals of the poems parodied in his text.

Contents

• Alices Adventures in Wonderland: 45
• Down the RabbitHole: 51
• The Pool of Tears: 58
• A CaucusRace and a Long Tale: 66
• The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill: 74
• Advice from a Caterpillar: 83
• Pig and Pepper: 92
• A Mad TeaParty: 103
• The Queens CroquetGround: 112
• The Mock Turtles Story: 122
• The LobsterQuadrille: 132
• Who Stole the Tarts?: 141
• Alices Evidence: 148
• Lewis Carroll Alices Adventures Under Ground: 157
• Lewis Carroll The Nursery Alice: 209
• Lewis Carroll Alice on the Stage: 232
• From Lewis Carroll Symbolic Logic: 238
• From Lewis Carrolls Diaries and Letters: 242
• 2 Letters: 249
• Remembering Lewis Carroll: 254
• 2 Isa Bowman Lewis Carroll As I Knew Him: 264
• Contemporary Reviews of Alices Adventures in Wonderland: 270
• 3 The Bookseller 12 December 1865: 271
• 5 Illustrated Times 16 December 1865: 272
• 6 The Athenaeum 16 December 1865: 273
• 7 The Spectator 22 December 1865: 274
• 9 The London Review 23 December 1865: 275
• 10 The Times 13 August 1868: 276
• 11 John Bull 20 January 1866: 278
• 12 The Literary Churchman 5 May 1866: 279
• 13 The Sunderland Herald 25 May 1866: 280
• 14 Aunt Judys Magazine 1 June 1866: 281
• 16 The Daily News 19 December 1866: 282
• 17 The Scotsman 22 December 1866: 283
• 18 The Contemporary Review May 1869: 284
• 19 Alice Translated The Spectator 7 August 1869: 285
• Poems Parodied in Alices Adventures in Wonderland: 287
• 3 Speak Gently: 288
• 4 The Star: 289
• 5 The Spider and the Fly: 290
• 6 The Sluggard: 291
• 8 Alice Gray: 292
• 9 Shes All My Fancy Painted Him: 293
• Contemporary Childrens Literature: 295
• 2 George MacDonald from Phantastes 1858 and The Light Princess 1864: 301
• 3 Charles Kingsley from The WaterBabies 186263: 314
• 1870: 322
• Lewis Carrolls Photographs of Alice Lorina and Edith Liddell: 342
• Select Bibliography: 347

Popular passages

Page 33 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" The Cat replies, "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.‎

About the author

Richard Kelly, Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Broadview Editions Series; Broadview literary texts; Literary Texts Series; Picas Series
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Editor: Richard Kelly
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Broadview Press, 2000
• ISBN: 155111223X, 9781551112237
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics