Alice's Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures under Ground was the little-known first draft of what became the famed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, first composed the story of Alice, it was on a boating trip with the Liddell sisters. It was for Alice Liddell that he told tales of Alice's adventures, and Dodgson eventually promised to write the stories down for her. This edition of Alice's Adventures under Ground is the second recorded version of Alice's tales (the first was destroyed), given as a gift to Miss Liddell for Christmas. Afterward, friends encouraged Dodgson to publish Alice's Adventures, which he did after some revisions with Macmillan & Company in London, as the version we know and love today. This facsimile of the handwritten 1864 manuscript includes additional material from the 1886 version and 37 original illustrations. The original manuscript can be viewed in the British Museum in London. In 1865, English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice - named for one of the little girls to whom the book was dedicated - who journeys down a rabbit hole and into a whimsical underworld realm, instantly struck a chord with the British public, and then with readers around the world.

Renowned as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest boy of a family of eleven children, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and Frances Jane Lutwidge. At the age of twelve, he was sent to Richmond Grammar School, and in 1850 he enrolled at the University of Oxford, from which he graduated in 1854. His talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855, which he continued to hold for the next twenty-six years. He wrote many books on mathematics and logic, enjoyed inventing puzzles and games and playing croquet. While teaching, Carroll was ordained as a deacon; however, he never preached. In 1855, dean Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church College with his wife, their son, Harry, and daughters Lorina, Alice and Edith. Carroll loved to entertain their children. Alice Liddell remembers spending many hours listening to Carroll's fantastic tales. On a sunny afternoon of 4 July 1862, while rowing Lorina, Alice, and Edith, up the Thames for a picnic, he told them a fantastic tale of a little girl, named Alice, who fell through a rabbit-hole. When Alice arrived home, she exclaimed that he must write the story down for her. Carroll began writing the text almost immediately, and in 1864, he gave Alice a present: a bound manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. The manuscript fell into the hands of the novelist Henry Kingsley, who urged Carroll to publish it. Illustrated by John Tenniel, the book was released in 1865 as an expanded version of the original manuscript, with the title Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Gratified by the reception of the novel, Carroll wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There, which was published in 1871, again illustrated by Tenniel. In the sequel, Alice enters into a mirror world, laid out like a chessboard. He published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems in 1869, a long-form nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark in 1876, Sylvie and Bruno in 1889 and its second volume, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). He retired from teaching mathematics in 1881. While visiting his sisters in Guildford, just outside London, in 1898, he became ill. He died there of pneumonia on January 14, 1898.

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ISBN 13	9780486214825
ISBN 10	0486214826
Titre	Alice's Adventures Underground
Auteur	Lewis Carroll
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Dover Publications Inc.
Année de publication	1965-06-01
Nombre de pages	128
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