No. of pages 448
Published: 2003
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book features in the following series: Alice, Penguin Classics, Through the Looking Glass .
This book has been graded for interest at 9 years.
There are 448 pages in this book. This book was published in 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd .
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865. Sir John Tenniel was already a renowned cartoonist when he was invited to produce illustrations for Alice. His exquisite engravings are among the most iconic and best loved images in the world.
This book contains the following story:
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll tells a story about a curious little girl called Alice who follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and ends up in Wonderland. Here she meets various bizarre characters including the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Caterpillar and the Queen of Hearts. You can read the unabridged text here.
This book has been nominated for the following award:
BBC Book Awards - Big Read Top 100
This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.
This book features the following characters:
Knave of Hearts
This book features the character Knave of Hearts.
Duchess
This book features the character Duchess.
White Rabbit
This book features Carroll's character, White Rabbit.
Queen of Hearts
This book features Carroll's character, Queen of Hearts.
March Hare
This book features Carroll's character, March Hare.
Alice
This book features Carroll's character, Alice.
Mad Hatter
This book features Carroll's character, Mad Hatter.
Caterpillar
This book features Carroll's character, Caterpillar.
"A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices...Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense"
-Malcolm Bradbury
"Alice in Wonderland is one of the top 25 books of all time. I always loved the book and I always loved the various characters, the psychedelic nature of it and kind-of odd allegorical stories inside stories. I always thought it was beautiful."
-Jonny Depp
"Wonderland and the world through the Looking Glass were, I always knew, different from other imagined worlds. Nothing could be changed, although things in the story were always changing...Carroll moves his readers as he moves chess pieces and playing cards."
-A. S. Byatt
"It would not have occurred to me even to suspect that the "children's tale" was in brilliant ways coded to be read by adults and was in fact an English classic, a universally acclaimed intellectual tour de force and what might be described as a psychological/anthropological dissection of Victorian England. It seems not to have occurred to me that the child-Alice of drawing rooms, servants, tea and crumpets and chess, was of a distinctly different background than my own. I must have been the ideal reader: credulous, unjudging, eager, thrilled. I knew only that I believed in Alice, absolutely."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense."
-Philip Pullman
