Quick overview
- Children's novel published in 1865
- Written by Charles Dodgson as Lewis Carroll
- Followed by Through the Looking-Glass
What is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland about?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 under the name Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford. He first told the story to Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip in 1862.
Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and finds a strange world where she changes size and meets the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. Its logic puzzles and wordplay are meant to amuse both children and adults.
Read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland online
How to read it on a Kindle, Kobo or phone
Kindle: download the EPUB and send it with Amazon's Send to Kindle (web, app or email). Amazon converts it for your device. Kobo, Pocketbook, Apple Books and Google Play Books open the EPUB directly. The PDF keeps the page layout and suits printing or a large tablet.
Is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland free to download?
Yes. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, so it is in the US public domain. Lewis Carroll died in 1898, so it is also free in the EU, where copyright ends 70 years after death. This edition comes from Standard Ebooks, which releases its texts under CC0.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about?
A girl falls down a rabbit hole into a strange land where nothing follows the usual rules.
Who was the real Alice?
Alice Liddell, the daughter of a dean at Oxford, for whom Carroll first told the story.
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