Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll's children's story about a girl who follows the White Rabbit into a world of shifting proportions and puzzling rules. Encounters with the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts repeatedly unsettle her efforts to behave sensibly. Carroll transforms lessons, manners and familiar language into comic problems, allowing nonsense to expose contradictions in ordinary reasoning. Alice's curiosity and resistance give continuity to the episodes. The story's connection with illustration, especially John Tenniel's original images, also helped establish the distinctive visual identities of its characters.