Easy Book Club: "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" de Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll real

name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He used the name Lewis Carroll when he was writing his children’s books and composing his poems. He was born in 1832 and died in 1898.

He was a teacher of maths at Oxford University. He was one of eleven children. He really liked drawing as a child. The story Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865. Carroll wrote another Alice book. This one was called Alice Through the Looking Glass and it was published in 1871. Lewis Carroll also enjoyed writing poetry.

Lewis Carroll loved puzzles and games. He loved chess player, and there are lots of references to chess (and other games) in his books for children.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) This fantasy novel of 1865 was originally called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.

The story was first told by Carroll on 4th July 1862, to the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, Oxford, on a river boat trip.

The children, especially Alice, loved the story and asked Carroll to write it down. It took him until February 1863 to write out the whole text, trying very hard to write in neat ‘manuscript print’, designed for the young Alice to read. Once the text was complete, Carroll began to add the illustrations which give a charming impression of his own vision of Wonderland and its inhabitants.

The author reviewed and expanded the story, publishing it with illustrations by John Tenniel. Carroll’s book has encounters with talking animals, magic potions, problems with scale and crazy ideas.

Source: bl.uk

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This Picture is from Alice Liddle the main character of the book.

This is the dedication of the first book