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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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noun

  1. a story for children (1865) by Lewis Carroll.


Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cultural  
  1. (1865) A book by Lewis Carroll. Alice, a young girl, enters Wonderland by following the White Rabbit down his hole and has many strange adventures there. She meets the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the grinning Cheshire cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.


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The story comes from Victorian author Lewis Carroll, who first published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a children's novel in 1865.

From BBC

This deluxe edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” — from David Brass Rare Books in Calabasas for $19,500 — is one of just 200, signed in pencil by Dalí and among a small handful marked hors commerce, meaning it was reserved for the publisher and close collaborators.

From Los Angeles Times

His surrealist reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian children’s novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” distorts the nonsense and whimsy: melting clocks and anxious White Rabbits, sinister playing cards and caterpillars on mushrooms.

From Los Angeles Times

The show saw him lead conversations with academics about a wide variety of historical, scientific, philosophical and cultural topics - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Zenobia, Queen of the Palmyrene Empire.

From BBC

But there are many other props that were not featured in the much-loved tale by Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

From BBC