Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. Illustrations by John Tenniel.Īlice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Its hallucinogenic style, along with much of Dodgson's private life, remains puzzling.Ībridged: GH. This, probably the most popular children's story of all time, is said to have been invented for Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, during a rowing trip on 4th July 1862. Self-portrait of Dodgson and his original manuscriptĭodgson was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University, a logician and pioneer photographer who delighted in puzzles and nonsense stories. The original, squashed down to read in about 25 minutes ‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think-’ (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.By Lewis Carroll (Rev. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘-yes, that’s about the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud.
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