Alice’s adventures begin with just simply following a white rabbit in a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch. From there she lands in an extraordinary land where nothing is as it seems. She take advice from a caterpillar, has tea with a Mad Hatter, and plays croquet with flamingos. Suddenly Alice is accused of stealing the Queen of Hearts tarts. Will she be found innocent in this nonsensical world? Following her previous adventure, Alice steps through a looking glass to end up in a fantastical world. She meets famous characters such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. She comes across both a red queen and a white queen. Somehow, Alice also becomes a queen herself and throws a party. The party lands in chaos. Will Alice escape? Will anything make sense? Lewis Carroll was born in 1832 as the third of eleven children. Growing up he had an unhappy childhood due to his lisp and lack of friends. Carroll exceeded in the academic world and graduated from Oxford University in 1850. Carroll proceed to become an accomplished mathematician with many honors and awards. His published works based on Alice’s character expanded a newly formed genre and are considered classics. Carroll died of pneumonia in 1898 at home.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
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