Alice in wonderland

The White Rabbit

It is a common misconception that the book, Alice in Wonderland is meant only for children; reading the book as an adult will convince you.

 From the white Rabbit with his watch in his waist-coat pocket, to the Mad Hatter's, Dormouse's and March Hare's Tea party; from the Cheshire Cat with it's mischievous grin to the Queen of Hearts and her incessant cry of 'Off with his head' or 'Off with her head', Alice in wonderland is packed with the adventures of a girl named Alice and her encounters with imaginary creatures in a sort of day dream.

Cheshire Cat (Walt Disney)

The Mad Hatter's Tea -party (Walt Disney)

Her adventures begin when she follows the White Rabbit down the Rabbit hole, and from there she encounters some other creatures that had fallen into the 'pool of tears' which she had wept - a Mouse, a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and some others. Since they were all wet, the Dodo organized a 'Caucus race' after which they were dry again. When asked who had won the race, the Dodo answered, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."

Alice and the Dodo

The author used the name, Lewis Carroll as a pseudonym. His actual names are Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He wrote another book on Alice's adventures known as 'Through the Looking-Glass'. Here, Alice encounters the Queens and Kings (White and Red), The duchess and her cook, Humpty dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and The Lion and The Unicorn. The book is sort of like a game of chess, and Alice became a Queen in the end.

The most recent movie adaptation of this book is the 2010 American movie featuring Johnny Depp and
Anne Hathaway.

Lewis Carroll's writings are known to have an underlay of logic, reading his books demand quick thinking in order to fully understand and enjoy them. The poem, Jabberwocky  is the greatest nonsense poem written in English, and it contains neologisms, nonsense words such as 'Chortle' and 'Galumph'; and portmanteaus, which Humpty Dumpty explained to Alice as a combination of two words to make one. Example as found in the poem are 'Slithy' meaning 'Lithe(Active) and Slimy', and 'Mimsy' meaning 'Flimsy and Miserable'.

His other books are Phantasmagoria and The Hunting of the Snark (both are poems), and A Tangled Tale.