Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children's book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. With its fantastical tales and riddles, it became one of the most famous works of English-language fiction. One of the best-known and most famous works of English-language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures, frequently changing size unexpectedly. She encounters the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess, and the Cheshire Cat, and she attends a strange, endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. She plays a croquet game with an unmanageable flamingo for a croquet mallet and uncooperative hedgehogs for croquet balls. At the same time, the Queen calls for the execution of almost everyone present. Later, at the Queen's behest, the Gryphon takes Alice to meet the sobbing Mock Turtle, who describes his education in such subjects as Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Alice is then called as a witness in the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who is accused of having stolen the Queen's tarts. However, when the Queen demands that Alice be beheaded, Alice realizes that the characters are only a pack of cards, and she then awakens from her dream.