Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865 Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, commonly abbreviated as Alice in Wonderland, is a fantasy novel written by British mathematician, logician, photographer and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. The story tells how a girl named Alice falls through a hole, finding herself in a peculiar world, populated by humans and anthropomorphic creatures. The book plays with logic, giving the novel great popularity among both children and adults. It is considered one of the best novels in the genre of Nonsense. Its narrative and structure, along with its characters, have been a great influence in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

Some of Lewis Carroll's most famous characters appear in this work, such as the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Hatter, the Blue Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts;1 they have become important enough to be recognized outside of Alice's world.

Only 22 copies of the first edition of 1865 are preserved, of which 17 belong to different libraries, and the rest are part of the private collections of some readers. The book has a second, less well-known part, called Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there, from 1871. Several film adaptations combine elements from both books.

The work has been translated into many languages, including Esperanto. In 1998, a copy of the first edition of the book was sold at auction for $1.5 million, making it the most expensive children's book to date.