'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'. So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century Alice had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lending a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy.
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832, was a man of contradictions. A socially inept bachelor, he was a brilliant storyteller, an inventor of games, a notable photographer in the early days of the technology and, by profession, an Oxford lecturer in mathematics.
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Alice in Wonderland (World Digital Library Edition)
by Lewis Carroll
