It is written in the third person past tense, although much of the story is told through Alice’s internal monologues. Set in the author’s present day in the English countryside, Wonderland is about a young girl named Alice who has an extraordinary adventure in a dream when she falls asleep one afternoon. Because Dodgson is more commonly known by his pseudonym, this guide refers to Lewis Carroll as the author. Lewis Carroll is the pen name of the mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. They are the model on which all subsequent illustrated and animated versions of the story are based. John Tenniel is the original illustrator, and his famous wood block illustrations, which range from whimsical to unsettling, convey the gothic aesthetic of Victorian children’s literature and have become inseparable from the story. Carroll first wrote the story with his own illustrations as Alice’s Adventures Underground and expanded it into the widely known published version in 1865. The novel began as a story that Carroll told to the three daughters of his friend Henry Liddell while on a boat ride on the River Cherwell in 1862.
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