Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, 1865
A girl falls down a rabbit hole into a world where nothing keeps its size, its manners or its temper, and keeps asking the questions everyone else stopped asking.
Lewis Carroll
1832–1898
Charles Dodgson was an Oxford maths lecturer who invented the story on a rowboat trip for the dean's daughter, Alice Liddell, after she asked him to write it down.
Feels like wonder, curiosity and identity.
She scolds herself so well it brings her to tears.
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!” Books by Lewis Carroll
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