Alice's Adventures Underground (English Literary Autograph Manuscripts)

by Lewis Carroll

Morton N. Cohen

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Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book. On 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day"
  • ISBN10 0904351114
  • ISBN13 9780904351118
  • Publish Date January 1979 (first published 1 June 1965)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Genesis Publications
  • Edition Limited signed edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 112
  • Language English