Alice in Wonderland [Lit.]
Lewis Carroll's children's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is an account of a young girl's experiences in a surreal, illogical, dreamlike world. At the beginning of the story Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole and finds herself apparently tumbling down a very deep well, eventually landing with a thump in Wonderland. Alice finds a little door that is too small for her to fit through until she drinks from a bottle labelled ‘Drink me’ and immediately starts to shrink. Not long after this she is required to eat a cake labelled ‘Eat me’, to make her grow taller. Further strange incidents occur as Alice encounters a succession of outlandish creatures. At the end of the story Alice wakes from what has apparently been a dream. Alice is depicted in ... ...
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