Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

First published in 1865,these endearing tales of an imaginative child’s dream world by Lewis Carrollpen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgsonare written with charming simplicity. While delighting children with a heroine who represents their own thoughts and feelings about growing upthe tale is appreciated by adults as a gentle satire on educationpoliticsliteratureand Victorian life in general. All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Catthe hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatterthe March Hare and the Ugly Duchess . . andof courseAlice herself – growing alternately taller and smallerattending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet gamesobserving everything with clarity and rational amazement.