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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons which British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children, mathematicians, and users of psychedelic drugs.
In 1998 a first-edition copy of the book sold at auction for $1.5 million USD, becoming the most expensive children's book ever sold. Only twenty-two copies of the 1865 first edition are known to have survived; 17 are owned by libraries, the other 5 being in private hands.
The book has a sequel, called Through the Looking-Glass, and movie adaptations often combine elements from both books.
The American writer Martin Gardner has produced a work entitled The Annotated AliceThe Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass''. It has extensive annotations explaining them, including the Victorian poems that Carrol, incorporating the text of both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. It has extensive annotations explaining them, including the Victorian poems that Dodgson parodies in the two books.
Like the BibleThe Bible (From Greek βιβλια biblia meaning "books", which in turn is derived from βυβλος byblos meaning "papyrus", from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) and the works of ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 ( O. May 3, 1616 ( N. has a reputation as the greatest writer the English language has ever known. Indeed, the English Renaissance has often been called "the age of Shakespe Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into many languages, including EsperantoEsperanto is a planned ( constructed) international auxiliary language. The name derives from the pseudonym (Dr. Esperanto) under which L. Zamenhof published the language in 1887. See Esperanto history. His intention was to create an easy-to-learn languag.
The book was published on July 4July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. Events 993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg canonized. 1054 A supernova is observed by the Chinese and Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For severa, 18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday. Events January 31 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. February 17 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forc, exactly three years after Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat up the River ThamesThis article is about the River Thames in southern England. For other meanings of the word Thames, see Thames The Thames ( pronounced /temz/) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. Course The Thames has a length of with three little girls:
The journey had started at Folly Bridge near Oxford, England and ended five miles away in a village of Godstow. During the journey the Reverend Dodgson made up and told the girls a story, which he later developed into Alice's Adventures Underground which then became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.