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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense ...
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 1948 TV broadcast United Kingdom BBC production [6] Alice in Wonderland: 1949: Live-action/Stop motion: France: Directed by Dallas Bower: Alice in Wonderland: 1950 United States Televised on the CBS Ford Theatre, with Iris Mann as Alice, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner: Alice in Wonderland ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Alice in Wonderland was one of the first titles available for the rental market on VHS and Beta and for retail sale on RCA's short-lived CED Videodisc format. The film was released on October 15, 1981, on VHS, CED Videodisc, and Betamax for its 30th anniversary.
The Lewis Carroll Centenary Wood near his birthplace in Daresbury opened in 2000. [136] As Carroll was born in All Saints' Vicarage, he is commemorated at All Saints' Church, Daresbury by stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Lewis Carroll Centre, attached to the church, was opened in March 2012 ...
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 175 languages. [1] [2] The language with the most editions of the Alice in Wonderland novels in translation is Japanese, with 1,271 editions. [3] Some translations, with the first date of publishing and of reprints or re-editions by other publishers, are:
John Tenniel's illustration of Alice and the pig from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice is a fictional child living during the middle of the Victorian era. [2] In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which takes place on 4 May, [nb 1] the character is widely assumed to be seven years old; [3] [4] Alice gives her age as seven and a half in the sequel, which takes place on 4 ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable is a retelling by Mrs. J. C. Gorham of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, written in 1905 and published by A. L. Burt of New York. It is part of Burt's Series of One Syllable Books , which was "selected specially for young people's reading, and told in simple language for youngest readers".