Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English <a href="/facts/Children%2527s_literature/ggVfDDVo">children's novel</a> by <a href="/facts/Lewis_Carroll/UnDExrlu">Lewis Carroll</a>, a mathematics <a href="/facts/University_don/wNWgAJ48">don</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Oxford/ExVVQL6V">University of Oxford</a>. It details the story of a girl named <a href="/facts/Alice_(Alice%2527s_Adventures_in_Wonderland)/T5u3sfvJ">Alice</a> who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of <a href="/facts/Anthropomorphism/foTf9q24">anthropomorphic</a> creatures. It is seen as an example of the <a href="/facts/Literary_nonsense/j3kRpf78">literary nonsense</a> genre. The artist <a href="/facts/John_Tenniel/1jflNQHE">John Tenniel</a> provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. 
It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of <a href="/facts/Victorian_literature/rpRjD8aQ">Victorian literature</a>; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the <a href="/facts/Fantasy/gkujmhJg">fantasy</a> genre. It is credited as helping end an era of <a href="/facts/Didacticism/jBYIFLrr">didacticism</a> in <a href="/facts/Children%2527s_literature/ggVfDDVo">children's literature</a>, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with <a href="/facts/Logic/8JnpJLtt">logic</a>, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with <a href="/facts/Alice_Liddell/8p8YJSvl">Alice Liddell</a>, a girl Carroll knew—scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
The book has never been out of print and <a href="/facts/Translations_of_Alice%2527s_Adventures_in_Wonderland/y8QMcLnw">has been translated</a> into 174 languages. Its legacy includes <a href="/facts/Works_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland/Nxrpffk3">adaptations</a> to screen, radio, visual art, ballet, opera, and musical theatre, as well as theme parks, board games and video games. Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled <a href="/facts/Through_the_Looking-Glass/1qFDeLkF">Through the Looking-Glass</a> and a shortened version for young children, <a href="/facts/The_Nursery_%2522Alice%2522/2cvTFvdP">The Nursery "Alice"</a>, in 1890.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland