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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(1907)
byLewis Carroll, illustrated byCharles Robinson
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457140Alice's Adventures in Wonderland1907Lewis Carroll
By the kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,
the latest revised text has been used in this edition.
“Off with her head!”
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH EIGHT COLOURED PLATES AND ONE HUNDRED
AND TWELVE OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES ROBINSON
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD.
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
all rights reserved
LL in the golden afternoon.
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.
Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together?
Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her edict "to begin it"—
In gentler tone Secunda hopes
"There will be nonsense in it,"
While Tertia interrupts the tale
Not more than once a minute.
Anon, to sudden silence won,
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast—
And half believe it true.
And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
"The rest next time—" "It is next time!"
The happy voices cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out—
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far-off land.
CHAPTER I
PAGE
Down the Rabbit-hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
CHAPTER II
The Pool of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 15 |
CHAPTER III
A Caucus-race and a Long Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 33 |
CHAPTER IV
The Rabbit sends in a Little Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 43 |
CHAPTER V
Advice from a Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 59 |
CHAPTER VI
Pig and Pepper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 74 |
CHAPTER VII
A Mad Tea-party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 91 |
CHAPTER VIII
The Queen’s Croquet Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 107 |
CHAPTER IX
The Mock Turtle’s Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 124 |
CHAPTER X
The Lobster Quadrille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 139 |
CHAPTER XI
Who Stole the Tarts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 153 |
CHAPTER XII
Alice’s Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 166 |
| page | |
| The Rabbit took a Watch out | 2 |
| She took down a jar | 4 |
| “Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand?” | 5 |
| The fall was over | 7 |
| The loveliest garden you ever saw | 9 |
| Alice ventured to taste it | 11 |
| She tried her best to climb up one of the legs | 12 |
| The poor little thing sat down and cried | 13 |
| It was as much as she could do | 16 |
| There was a large pool | 17 |
| It was the White Rabbit | 19 |
| The Rabbit started violently | 20 |
| “And welcomes little fishes in” | 21 |
| She dropped it hastily | 22 |
| She was up to her chin | 23 |
| “O Mouse, do you know the way out?” | 25 |
| The Mouse gave a sudden leap | 27 |
| The Mouse was swimming away from her | 29 |
| Alice led the way | 31 |
| She had quite a long argument | 34 |
| They all sat down | 36, 37 |
| “I beg your pardon” | 40 |
| A neat little house | 43 |
| She ran off at once | 44 |
| The White Rabbit’s house | 45 |
| It was very uncomfortable | 46 |
| “Digging for apples” | 48 |
| She suddenly spread out her hand | 49 |
| “Sure, it’s an arm” | 51 |
| “There goes Bill!” | 52 |
| “What happened to you?” | 53 |
| Bill was in the middle | 54 |
| She ran off as hard as she could | 55 |
| An enormous puppy | 56 |
| Quietly smoking | 58 |
| “It isn’t,” said the Caterpillar | 60 |
| Alice folded her hands | 61 |
| “And yet you incessantly stand on your head” | 62 |
| “You turned a back-somersault” | 63 |
| “You balanced an eel” | 64 |
| “It is a very good height” | 65 |
| She stretched her arms round it | 66 |
| She was shrinking rapidly | 67 |
| All she could see | 68 |
| Her neck kept getting entangled | 71 |
| Suddenly a footman in livery came | 74 |
| “For the duch*ess” | 75 |
| “From the Queen” | 76 |
| “I shall sit here” | 77 |
| The duch*ess | 78 |
| The cook ... at once set to work | 80 |
| The baby | 81 |
| She carried it out | 83 |
| She ... felt quite relieved | 85 |
| Sitting on a bough | 87 |
| “Did you say pig, or fig?” | 89 |
| It vanished quite slowly | 90 |
| The March Hare’s house | 91 |
| The other two were using it as a cushion | 93 |
| “The Dormouse is asleep” | 95 |
| “It goes on, you know” | 97 |
| “They lived on treacle” | 99 |
| “Learning to draw” | 101 |
| And in she went | 103 |
| All of them bowed low | 108 |
| First came ten soldiers | 110 |
| After these came the royal children | 111 |
| Next came the guests | 112 |
| Then followed the Knave of Hearts | 113 |
| And last of all this grand procession | 114 |
| It would twist itself | 116 |
| She noticed a curious appearance | 117 |
| “There’s the arch” | 119 |
| “It’s the Cheshire Cat” | 121 |
| “You dear old thing!” | 125 |
| “And the moral of that is——” | 127 |
| “A fine day, your Majesty!” | 128 |
| “Now, I give you fair warning” | 129 |
| All the players | 131 |
| “What fun!” | 133 |
| Sitting sad and lonely | 135 |
| They began solemnly dancing | 141 |
| The Mock Turtle sang | 142 |
| “When they take us up” | 143 |
| Said a Whiting to a Snail | 145 |
| “I can tell you more” | 147 |
| She had sat down | 150 |
| “Come on,” cried the Gryphon | 152 |
| Near the King was the White Rabbit | 153 |
| The Knave was standing | 154 |
| “I beg pardon” | 156 |
| “Give your evidence” | 158 |
| The Hatter hurriedly left | 163 |
| The White Rabbit read out ... the name “Alice” | 165 |
| “Here!” cried Alice | 166 |
| There they lay | 167 |
| “Silence!” | 169 |
| “It isn’t a letter” | 170 |
| “Never!” said the Queen | 174 |
| Thinking of little Alice | 177 |
COLOURED PLATES | |
| “Off with her head!” | Frontispiece |
| “Ahem!” said the Mouse, with an important air | To face page 34 |
| A large pigeon had flown into her face | ” ” 68 |
| She began nursing her child again | ” ” 80 |
| “What day of the month is it?” he said | ” ” 94 |
| There was a dispute going on | ” ” 122 |
| “Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen | ” ” 134 |
| The whole pack rose up in the air | ” ” 174 |
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