Lewis Carroll 2 hr 1 min read

A bored girl follows a waistcoated white rabbit down a hole into the most famous dreamworld in literature.

Lewis Carroll's 1865 immortal classic sends Alice tumbling into a Wonderland of mad tea-parties, hookah-smoking caterpillars, and a croquet-playing Queen, its nonsense logic and inventive wordplay unmatched in over a century and a half. A cornerstone of imaginative literature and a perennial touchstone of the fantastic. Read it for the founding masterpiece of literary nonsense, as fresh and strange as ever.

In its time

Published in 1865, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

2 hr 1 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Arthur Rackham