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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonymLewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale plays with logicin ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.It is considered to be one of the best examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential,especially in the fantasy genre.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the River Thames with three young girls:

* Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) ("Prima" in the book's prefatory verse)
* Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) ("Secunda" in the prefatory verse)
* Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853) ("Tertia" in the prefatory verse).

The three girls were the daughters of Henry George Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church as well as headmaster of Westminster School.

The journey had started at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. To while away time the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that, not so coincidentally, 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. After a lengthy delay—over two years —he eventually did so and on 26 November 1864 gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself. Some, including Martin Gardner, speculate there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson himself when he printed a more elaborate copy by hand, but there is no known prima facie evidence to support this.

But before Alice received her copy, Dodgson was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,500-word original to 27,500 words, most notably adding the episodes about the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. In 1865, Dodgson's tale was published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by "Lewis Carroll" with illustrations by John Tenniel. The first print run of 2,000 was held back because Tenniel objected to the print quality.A new edition, released in December of the same year, but carrying an 1866 date, was quickly printed. As it turned out, the original edition was sold with Dodgson's permission to the New York publishing house of Appleton. The binding for the Appleton Alice was virtually identical to the 1866 Macmillan Alice, except for the publisher's name at the foot of the spine. The title page of the Appleton Alice was an insert cancelling the original Macmillan title page of 1865, and bearing the New York publisher's imprint and the date 1866.

The entire print run sold out quickly. Alice was a publishing sensation, beloved by children and adults alike. Among its first avid readers were Queen Victoria and the young Oscar Wilde. The book has never been out of print. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 125 languages. There have now been over a hundred editions of the book, as well as countless adaptations in other media, especially theatre and film.

The book is commonly referred to by the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland, an alternative title popularized by the numerous stage, film and television adaptations of the story produced over the years. Some printings of this title contain both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and, What Alice Found There. ... Read more

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1804 to 1806 was headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.

In 1804, a few weeks after the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson had the Congress appropriate $2,500 for an expedition to the west coast to explore this new purchase.

The expedition was intended to study the tribes, botany, geology, terrain and wildlife in the region, as well as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already in the area.

These journals are the actual entries by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from their travels from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Northwest and back.

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These Journals are from May 14, 1804, the day the expedition left

the Mississippi River, to September 26, 1806, a day or two after they

arrived back in St. Louis. ... Read more

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This collection contains some of Lewis Carroll's most celebrated works:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
The Hunting of the Snark
Sylvie and Bruno
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
A Tangled Tale

Includes an active table of contents. ... Read more

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This is a digitally restored version of the classic Lewis Carroll novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Read online or print out and enjoy. Read the book before you see the Johnny Depp movie. ... Read more

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a work of literary nonsense written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, considered a classic example of the genre and of English literature in general. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantastic realm populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. ... Read more

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The official history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, published in 1814.Volume 1 covers the period from leaving St Louis to reaching the Columbia River. ... Read more

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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorised in the fairy tale genre. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (May 4),uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. ... Read more

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Piano and voice, symbols for guitar. Pretty pictorial cover in red pink and blue. "If I knew then what I know now, we wouldn't be apart" ... Read more

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Here you see Carroll the mathematician at his playful best. Don't let the title mislead you -- this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler.

Once master the machinery of Symbolic Logic, and you have a mental occupation always at hand, of absorbing interest, and one that will be of real use to you in any subject you may take up. It will give you clearness of thought - the ability to see your way through a puzzle - the habit of arranging your ideas in an orderly and get-at-able form - and, more valuable than all, the power to detect fallacies, and to tear to pieces the flimsy illogical arguments, which you will so continually encounter in books, in newspapers, in speeches, and even in sermons, and which so easily delude those who have never taken the trouble to master this fascinating Art. ... Read more

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From the movie starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert "The Big Pond". Nice cover photo in blue and white with Maurice holding the beautiful Claudette Colbert in his arms. Cover is purple, blue and white. "I'm so happy, happy-g-lucky me, I just go my way, living every day; I don't worry, worry in don't agree. " For voice, piano, open strings, symbols for guitar. ... Read more