Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—alien civilization
- Time of Work: Undefined, in dreamlands
- Setting: Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Other worlds, Dreams, Mental illness, Cats, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Imagination, Card games, Size or shape, Animals, Victorian era or Victorianism, Lobsters, Rabbits, Doors, Mushrooms
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
The Plot
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an outgrowth of Lewis Carroll’s earlier and shorter tale titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which he based on a story he told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters during a boat trip they took in 1862. Carroll completed this story, written in longhand and illustrated with his own drawings, in 1863. In 1864, he gave the manuscript to Alice as a gift. Revised and expanded by Carroll and newly illustrated by John Tenniel, this work evolved into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the following year.
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