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'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' is probably the first real children's novel. Until Lewis Carroll came along, it was practically unheard of for a publisher to release a book that aimed to give pleasure and entertainment to children with no secret educational or moral motives. But Carroll and 'Alice' changed all that.
But who was he, this Oxford mathematician, and how did he come to write this classic work? And what
is its legacy? If there had been no Alice, would we really have no
Winnie-the-Pooh, no Roald Dahl, Peter Pan? Would we never have met Frodo and Gollum, or had exciting adventures at Hogwarts? And what do people think of Alice today, a century and a half since it was first published?
Start exploring Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Biography
Read about how 'Alice in Wonderland' came to be written, how it changed the tradition of children's story-telling, and the versions that have been made of it since its first success.
Features
Come on a journey into the Victorian world, meet some inspired inventors, and look at the work of some of the illustrators who have followed in the footsteps of Sir John Tenniel. We talk to Marina Warner about fairy-stories, and Jonathan Miller about his own film adaptation of 'Alice'.
