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Can I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on EtoBox?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about?

Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was not originally written for the general public but for a single child: Alice Pleasance Liddell, second daughter of the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford. The story of its composition, as Carroll recorded it in the prefatory verses to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, goes something like this: On a warm summer afternoon (July 4, 1862, according to Carroll's diary) the author, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three young Liddell sisters (Lorina Charlotte, age thirteen, Alice Pleasance, age ten, and Edith, age eight), daughters of the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, made a short trip up the Thames River in a rowboat. "The trip," explains Martin Gardner in his The Annotated Alice, "was about three miles, beginning at Folly Bridge, near Oxford, and ending at the village of Godstow. 'We had tea on the bank there,' Carroll recorded in his diary, 'and did not reach Christ Church again till quarter past eight....'" "Seven months later," Gardner continues, "he added to this entry the following note: 'On which occasion I told them the fairytale of Alice's adventures underground.'" According to an account writte

Who reads Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
Lewis Carroll
Publisher
Avenel Books
Published
1869
Language
EN
Category
children's
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (32 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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