In 19th century England, when books for children were meant to teach them to be good little girls and boys, Carroll wrote a story to amaze and delight them.
To follow Alice down the rabbit hole was to enter a fictional world of magical fantasy for the first time and I loved her adventures with such wildly inventive characters as the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen, in a secret world where the absurd, the hallucinatory and the ridiculous are centre stage. Comments are closed.
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