Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Week 15: Children's Literature - Assignments - Reading - Resources - Images


Resources

You can read the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, online at Project Gutenberg, at Literature.org, at University of Virginia, along with an illustrated version at sabian.org.

You can read the Sylvie and Bruno stories, and other Carroll texts, at bootlegbooks.com.

The Background & History of Alice In Wonderland contains a great deal of useful information, including a description of the several different versions of Alice before Lewis Carroll settle on the final published form.

The Alice in Wonderland website is a wonderful resource, especially for movie and television productions of the Alice stories.

This biography of Dodgson comes with a timeline of events throughout his life.

You can read the entire Nursery Alice online at the Lewis Carroll e-texts website, which includes Carroll's wonderful Logic Puzzles

Sometimes Carroll includes parodies of poems in his work, although the original poems are now almost completely forgotten. Here are the originals for two of the poems that are parodied in this week's reading: The Star (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) and Speak Gently (Speak Roughly).

Here's an online game where you can Make Alice Change Sizes! And here are some of Lewis Carroll's Logic Games and Puzzles.

Read Alice in Latin! Alicia in Terra Mirabili.

All kinds of Alice images and collectibles can be seen at the Pancake Parlour.

You can also see examples of Lewis Carroll's own photography online (he was a notable photographer in his time).


Modern Languages / Anthropology 3043: Folklore & Mythology. Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
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