Lewis Carroll 1 hr 9 min read

The original, handwritten Wonderland, Carroll's first, simpler telling of Alice's fall down the rabbit-hole.

This is the 1886 facsimile of the manuscript Lewis Carroll wrote and illustrated for Alice Liddell, the seed that grew into 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' Shorter and more intimate than the published book, it offers a fascinating glimpse of a masterpiece in its first form. Read it for the tender, original Wonderland, in the very shape Carroll first dreamed it for a real little girl.

In its time

Published in 1886, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

1 hr 9 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).