Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Summary
Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Inspired by a boating excursion in 1862, Lewis Carroll's famous story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally intended only to entertain... Read more

CHAPTER II The Pool of Tears `Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I’m opening out like t... Read more

Biography EssayLewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in W... Read more

Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did no... Read more

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an author, mathematician, teacher, and photographer who is described by Roger Lancelyn Green in Twentieth Century Children's Writers as "probably the most quoted author in... Read more

Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Char... Read more

In the following essay, originally delivered as a speech in late 1936, psychiatry professor Paul Schilder uses the Alice books to psychoanalyze Charles Dodgson (Carroll), warning that the stories coul... Read more

In the following essay, Graham considers the function of the insanity theme in Alice. One of the most interesting characters in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the... Read more

In the following essay, Gattégno considers Carroll as a children's author and linguistic innovator. It is not necessary to reestablish Lewis Carroll. Today he is neither unknown nor u... Read more

In the following excerpt, Mellor addresses the philosophical implications of Alice's world, and compares and contrasts Carroll's "romantic irony" with Seren Kierkegaard�... Read more

In the following essay, Madden addresses the genesis and function of the three poems that "frame" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Over the past ... Read more

In the following essay, which focuses on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Conroy discusses the connections between Alice's identity as a middle-class Victorian child and her dream exper... Read more

Rackin is known as an authority on Lewis Carroll. In the following essay, he places the Alice books in their Victorian social context. This study rests on the premise that appreciating Lewis Carrol... Read more

Levin is an American educator and critic whose works reveal his wide range of interests and expertise, from Renaissance culture to the contemporary novel. In the following essay, he provides a centenn... Read more

Slick was a cofounder and lead singer of the San Francisco-based rock band Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship, then Starship). Her 1966 song "White Rabbit, " reprinted below, c... Read more

[In the following essay, which focuses on a theatrical adaptation of Alice, Jorgens considers the relevance of Carroll's stories to twentieth-century society.] In his discussion of the fairy... Read more

In the following essay, Sherer discusses Alice's adventures as representative of the Victorian child's desire to retreat to a secret place in order to establish autonomy. Victorian no... Read more

In the following essay, Irwin explores the theme of instability in the Alice stories. The Alice books are centrally concerned with instability. In Wonderland the heroine suffers alarming shifts of ... Read more

In the following essay, Silverstone discusses the similarities between the unconventional language employed by Carroll in his fiction and the “speculative morphologies” practiced by chil... Read more

In the following essay, Bivona considers Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as an allegory of nineteenth-century British imperialism. Few would dispute the claim that Lewis Carroll was fascina... Read more

In the following essay, Hubert uses a study of Alice in Wonderland to discuss the challenges inherent in the analysis of an illustrated text. Hubert compares the illustrations of Carroll, Tenniel, and... Read more

My name is Alice which as far as I know would make me a girl, or a female to use the proper word. The most treasured family member is my cat that I named Dinah. Dinah is the great at hunting and kil... Read more

Alice in Wonderland Book Notes is a free study guide on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Browse the summary below:   Author Biography / Context of the Work   One-Page Plot Summary ... Read more