Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
core novel 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Record
| First published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.99 (453,175 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780141321073 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, opens the Alice series with a young girl named Alice who, bored while sitting with her sister on a riverbank, follows a White Rabbit she notices checking a pocket watch and worrying aloud about being late. Chasing the rabbit down its hole, Alice falls into a fantastical underground world governed by its own strange logic, where she repeatedly changes size after eating or drinking mysterious substances, at one point growing so large inside a small house that she becomes stuck. As she makes her way through this nonsensical realm, she encounters a series of anthropomorphic creatures and eccentric figures, including a Caterpillar, a Duchess, a Cheshire Cat and a Mad Hatter, each presenting new puzzles, absurd social rules and obstacles that Alice must navigate as she tries to make sense of Wonderland and find her way through it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Series: Alice core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lewis Carroll
Notes
- From the series record (Alice): Lewis Carroll's 2-book Alice sequence -- both Core Canon. 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876), a separate nonsense poem sharing no setting or characters with Alice, is explicitly out of scope, not part of this universe. Pre-award-era classic; no formal literary award existed for this genre/period, per the same convention already applied to The King of Elfland's Daughter/The Worm Ouroboros/Lud-in-the-Mist.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Alice: position 1 of 2: next Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Britannica: Through the Looking-Glass
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland
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