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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

A rabbit with a pocket watch draws Alice down a rabbit hole.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate3,342 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg

Opening lines

Alice 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?”

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear…

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About the book

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, telling the story of a little girl who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. Regarded as an example of literary nonsense, it plays with logic and has stayed popular with adults as well as children. In the opening passage, Alice, bored by her sister's book, chases a pocket-watch-carrying white rabbit down the hole.

About the author

Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. He is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark.

Summary prepared with AI from Wikipedia: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (CC BY-SA)

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