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Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

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Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit underground and enters a place where size, language, and social rules refuse to stay consistent. Encounters with argumentative creatures lead her through strange lessons, a tea party, and a court. Her efforts to behave sensibly repeatedly expose the instability of everyone else’s rules.

12 sections26,475 wordsAbout 2 h
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About Alice in Wonderland

Wordplay makes familiar habits suddenly difficult to explain. Adults’ commands, schoolroom knowledge, and polite conversation return in distorted forms that Alice tries to navigate with uneven success. Notice how often an apparent logical argument depends on changing a word’s meaning, and how her changing body complicates the already difficult question of who she is.

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Enjoy the verbal puzzles while watching Alice test the authority of rules that keep changing as soon as she follows them.

This reading edition contains 26,475 words in 12 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: Lewis Carroll. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

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Contents

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  1. CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole10 min
  2. CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears10 min
  3. CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale8 min
  4. CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill13 min
  5. CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar10 min
  6. CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper12 min
  7. CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party11 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground12 min
  9. CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story11 min
  10. CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille10 min
  11. CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?9 min
  12. CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence10 min

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This edition contains the complete English literary text, with 12 sections and 26,475 words. This reading edition preserves the checked English text and its section order. No study notes have been added.

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