First published in 1865,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies.
Like the first, this second edition includes Carroll’s earlier story
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
, which allows readers to trace the revisions and to compare Carroll’s own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for
. This edition also includes new appendix material: George MacDonald writing on the fantastic, the eighteenth-century children’s story
Goody Two-Shoes
, a section on film and television adaptations of
Alice
, and new illustrations.