Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

• Tells the story of Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in a peculiar land with anthropomorphic creatures.
• Part of the literary nonsense* genre
• First UK printing 1865. This edition was suppressed by its illustrator, John Tenniel, due to his dissatisfaction with print quality.
• First US printing also 1865
• Second UK edition printed 1866.
• Among its first readers were Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria
• In general AiW received very poor reviews and did not gain popularity until the end of the 19th century.
• Now it has extreme popularity with adults and children.
• AiW has been translated to 125 languages
• It has never been out of print.

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