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	'''''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''''' is a canonical work of ] by Reverend ] under the pseudonym ]. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons which British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children, mathematicians, and users of psychedelics.		'''''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''''' is a canonical work of ] by Reverend ] under the pseudonym ]. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons which British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children, mathematicians, and users of psychedelics.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a canonical work of children's literature by Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons which British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children, mathematicians, and users of psychedelics.

History

The book was published on July 4, 1865, exactly three years after Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat up the River Thames with three little girls (Liddell girls):

Lorina Charlotte (aged 13)
Alice Pleasance (aged 10)
Edith (aged 8)

The journey had started at Folly Bridge near Oxford, England and ended five miles away in a village of Godstow. During the journey the Reverend Dodgson made up and told the girls a story, which he later developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Chapter 1 -- Down the Rabbit-Hole
Chapter 2 -- The Pool of Tears
Chapter 3 -- A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
Chapter 4 -- The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
Chapter 5 -- Advice from a Caterpillar
Chapter 6 -- Pig and Pepper
Chapter 7 -- A Mad Tea-Party
Chapter 8 -- The Queen's Croquet-Ground
Chapter 9 -- The Mock Turtle's story
Chapter 10 -- The Lobster-Quadrille
Chapter 11 -- Who Stole the Tarts?
Chapter 12 -- Alices's Evidence

The plot

A small girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her sister. She find interest in a white rabbit, dressed in a topcoat and muttering "I'm late!", which she follows down a rabbit's hole. She drops down into dream underworld of paradox, the absurd and the improbable. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she has several misadventures. She meets a group of small animals stranded in a sea of her own tears, then gets trapped in the rabbit's house, meets a baby which changes into a pig and a cat which disappears, goes to a never-ending tea party, plays croquet with an anthropomorphized deck of cards, goes to the shore and meets some more odd creatures, until the story ends with the Knave of Hearts being put on trial for stealing some tarts, and Alice waking up underneath a tree back with her sister.

The Characters in order of appearance

Poems and songs

"How doth the little crocodile..." (probably a parody -- does someone know what of?)
"You are old, Father William..."
The Duchess' lullaby: "Speak roughly to your little boy..."
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat..."
The Lobster Quadrille
"’Tis the voice of the lobster, I heard him declare..."
Turtle Soup
"The Queen of Hearts..."
The White Rabbit's evidence

Thematic Elements

Talk

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