Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Facsimile of the Original 1864 Author's Manuscript

Alices Adventures under Ground was the little-known first draft of what became the famed Alices Adventures in Wonderland. When Charles Dodgson better-known as Lewis Carroll first composed the story of Alice it was on a boating trip with the Liddell sisters. It was for Alice Liddell that he told tales of Alices adventures and Dodgson eventually promised to write the stories down for her. This edition of Alices Adventures under Ground is the second recorded version of Alices tales (the first was destroyed) given as a gift to Miss Liddell for Christmas. Afterward friends encouraged Dodgson to publish Alices Adventures which he did after some revisions with Macmillan & Company in London as the version we know and love today. This facsimile of the handwritten 1864 manuscript includes additional material from the 1886 version and 37 original illustrations. The original manuscript can be viewed in the British Museum in London. In 1865 English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898) aka Lewis Carroll wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice - named for one of the little girls to whom the book was dedicated - who journeys down a rabbit hole and into a whimsical underworld realm instantly struck a chord with the British public and then with readers around the world.