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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1865
Rackham’s artistic style and technique are steeped in pen and ink, creating sumptuous illustrations that defined the look of fairy tales during the Golden Age of Illustration. Observe his subtle use of watercolor, a skill that matured during his courtship and early marriage to Edyth Starkie.
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, sometimes known as Alice in Wonderland, is a 1865 fictional fantasy novel written by English author Charles Dodgson, published under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The first edition was illustrated by John Tenniel.
It is considered to be one of the best examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and still has a lasting popularity with both adults and children, resulting in many adaptations based on the novel being produced across all types of media.
Alice was a little girl who got bored sitting on the riverbank with her older sister, who is reading a dull book that has no pictures or conversations in it. As Alice contemplates on making a daisy-chain, she suddenly sees a talking white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch run past, lamenting his tardiness. Alice curiously chases the White Rabbit and sees him pop down a rabbit-hole, which was underneath a hedge. With her curiosity getting the better of her, Alice goes into the rabbit-hole after him. The rabbit-hole stretched straight ahead as she crawled through, until suddenly Alice fell down... down, down, down.
As Alice fell deeper down, she saw cup-boards, book-shelves, mirrors, paintings, and other commonplace objects that were placed all 'round the sides of the well. She takes down a jar from a shelf as she went past it. The jar is labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE", but the entire jar was empty. Alice did not want to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so she placed the jar in one of other cup-boards as she fell past it. After falling even deeper, Alice wonders if she shall fall right through the center of the Earth and come out onto the other side of the world. After the long fall, she finally lands in a chamber.
Once again, Alice sees the White Rabbit frantically hurrying down a passageway. She races after him, but suddenly loses the White Rabbit in a long corridor that was surrounded by many doors. Alice tries to open every door, but finds that they are all locked. She then sees that a little glass table with a small golden key on it has suddenly materialized, in this Wonderland. Alice figures that the golden key may open one of the doors and tries it on every door, but the key did not fit any of them. She then noticed a low curtain she had not seen before, and behind it was an extremely small door. Using the key, she unlocks the door to reveal that it leads into an extremely beautiful garden. She tries to fit through, but she is too large. Looking back at the table, she saw that a glass bottle with a paper label that says, "DRINK ME" has magically appeared on it. After wondering if it was alright to drink from the bottle, Alice drinks of the bottle's contents and finds herself shrinking down to ten inches high- the right size to get through the little door and into the lovely garden.
Alice then tries to open the little door to get into the garden, but the little door is locked again. The key is above her on the table, and thus too high for her to reach it at her height. She attempted climbing up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery. After crying in frustration for a moment, Alice discovers a small glass box lying underneath the table. Inside of the box is a cake with the words "EAT ME" neatly marked on it in currants. Alice decides to eats the cake, figuring that if it makes her grow larger, she can reach the key, and that if it makes her get smaller, then she can creep under the little door. She ate a little bit of the cake. She was quite shocked to see that she stayed the same size. (Usually, this generally happens when one eats cake). However, Alice had gotten so used to such curious, unexpected things happening to her that it seemed pretty dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So she immediately ate every last morsel of the "EAT ME" cake.
The cake makes Alice grow so enormous that her head hits the ceiling, much to her shock and surprise. "Curiouser and curiouser!" she cried. Alice saw that she could now reach the key on the table, and she picked up the golden key, hurried off to the garden door, and unlocked it. She looked along the passageway, only to find that she is worse off than before, as she could only look at the garden with one eye. She was so gigantic that she couldn't fit through the door now and get into the pretty garden. Sad and frustrated, she began to cry uncontrollably, and her tremendous tears flooded part of the chamber.
The White Rabbit runs by and is so frightened of the giant Alice that he drops his gloves and fan. He immediately scurries away into the darkness. Alice fans herself with the fan, wondering if she is still the same person that she was before she fell down the rabbit hole. Using the White Rabbit's fan causes Alice to shrink again, and she finds herself swimming through her own tears. Alice tries to make small talk with a talking Mouse while they paddle together, but the only topic of conversation that comes to mind is her beloved pussy cat, Dinah, which offends him deeply. So Alice starts to talk about a pleasant little dog that lives near her house, but when she mentioned that the dog kills rats the Mouse gets offended again. The Mouse then tells Alice to get to shore so he could tell her his history on why he dislikes cats and dogs. The pool quickly becomes crowded with other talking animals and birds that have been swept away, and they all swim to shore.
Chapter 1: Down The Rabbit Hole
Alice and her sister are lazing a river bank in the English countryside. As the bored Alice decides what to do, she spots a White Rabbit in a waistcoat with a pocket watch run by. Curious, having never seen a talking rabbit in clothing before, Alice chases it down a rabbit hole which, after a very long and slow fall, leads to a hallway of doors. After finding all the doors are locked, Alice discovers a golden key on a glass table that won't fit any door, except a tiny door that she cannot get through, but lead into a beautiful garden. She then finds a vial of potion. After a little consideration, she drinks from it, and it makes her suddenly shrink. Although she is now small enough for the tiny door, Alice had forgetting the key on top of the table, and she cannot climb the table as the glass is far too slippery. While wondering what to do, she finds a little cake. She eats it, and it makes her grow.
Chapter 2: Pool of Tears
Now gigantic, Alice becomes stuck in the hallway and starts to sob inconsolably. She pleads for the White Rabbit's assistance, but he runs away, so frightened at her giant size that he drops his gloves and fan. As Alice goes on a rant to herself about her strange day, she fans herself with the Rabbit's fan, which helps her shrink again. She lands in a huge pool of water, and realizes she has cried a pool of tears. In the pool, she comes across a mouse, who is easily offended by talking about her cat, Dinah. The pool soon becomes filled with various creates - a duck, a Dodo, an Eaglet, and several others - and they all swim to the shore.
Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
Although out of the pool, Alice and the creatures are still soaking wet, so Mouse tells a long, dry tale of William the Conqueror to try to dry them. It does not work, so Dodo suggests a Caucus Race: a race where everyone starts and finishes the race whenever they please. Once they are dry, the Mouse tells Alice a long story about his upbringing, but Alice is too occupied with his tail getting into knots. Alice feels a little homesick and talks about Dinah again, but when its revealed Dinah is a cat, the creatures run away.
Feb 29, 2016 · In 1900, seven years before he revolutionized the business of book art with Alice in Wonderland, Rackham set out to illustrate a special edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. He had just met the painter Edyth Starkie, young Walter’s aunt, over a garden fence.
Alice in Wonderland, full text and color illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Feb 1, 2016 · But, the son of a civil servant and a survivor in a family that had lost five of its children, young Arthur took the sensible path of becoming a junior insurance clerk at the age of seventeen, making £40 a year — about £4,500 in today’s money. At eighteen, he began studying art part-time at the Lambeth School of Art.
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Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration.
