![]() ![]() The Mouse gives them a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror. Alice and the other animals convene on the bank and the question among them is how to get dry again. She tries to make small talk with him in elementary French (thinking he may be a French mouse) but her opening gambit " Où est ma chatte?" ("Where is my cat?") offends the mouse and he tries to escape her.Ĭhapter Three – The Caucus Race and a Long Tale: The sea of tears becomes crowded with other animals and birds that have been swept away by the rising waters. After shrinking down again due to a fan she had picked up, Alice swims through her own tears and meets a Mouse, who is swimming as well. Alice is unhappy and, as she cries, her tears flood the hallway. She eats a cake with "EAT ME" written on it in currants as the chapter closes.Ĭhapter Two – The Pool of Tears: Chapter Two opens with Alice growing to such a tremendous size that her head hits the ceiling. She then discovers a bottle on a table labelled "DRINK ME", the contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key, which she has left on the table. She finds a small key to a door too small for her to fit through, but through it she sees an attractive garden. She follows it down a rabbit hole, but suddenly falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes. She then notices a White Rabbit wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch, talking to itself as it runs past. PlotĬhapter One – Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her older sister, who is reading a book with no pictures or conversations. īut before Alice received her copy, Dodgson was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the episodes about the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. Some, including Martin Gardner, speculate that there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson when he wrote a more elaborate copy by hand. On 26 November 1864, he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day". ![]() He added his own illustrations but approached John Tenniel to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children. To add the finishing touches, he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children-particularly the children of George MacDonald. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. During the trip, Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The journey began at Folly Bridge in Oxford and ended 3 miles (5 km) north-west in the village of Godstow. Page from the original manuscript copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864Īlice was published in 1865, three years after Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed a boat up the Isis on 4 July 1862 (this popular date of the "golden afternoon" might be a confusion or even another Alice-tale, for that particular day was cool, cloudy, and rainy ) with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church): Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849, "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse) Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852, "Secunda" in the prefatory verse) Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853, "Tertia" in the prefatory verse). ![]()
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