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Historical FantasyMyth & Legend FictionFae & Fairy Fiction

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

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  • 1889 first published
  • 277 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (102 ratings)
  • 545 editions
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass (1889) is a historical fantasy and mythic fiction novel. The story is set in Wonderland and Ying guo, in Siglo XIX. It features Alice, Bill and Caterpillar. Readers will find themes of animals, Anthropomorphism, artists' illustrated books and books and reading.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 102 ratings, and 763 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 545 editions across 11 languages.

It runs to roughly 277 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and some of the oddest characters in all literature. The crusty Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee--each one is more eccentric, and more entertaining, than the last. And all of them could only have come from the pen of Lewis Carroll, one of the few adults ever to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe--a wonderland where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real...where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination. --back cover Contains: - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193508W) - [Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15298516W)
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Opening line

“The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.”

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

  • Alice
  • Bill
  • Caterpillar
  • Dodo
  • Dormouse
  • Duchess
  • Fish-Footman
  • Frog-Footman
  • Gryphon
  • Hatter

Subjects

  • Adventure and adventurers
  • Adventure stories
  • Adventure travel
  • Animals
  • Anthropomorphism
  • Artists' illustrated books
  • Books and reading
  • British and irish fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • Child and youth fiction
  • Children
  • Children's fiction
  • Children's literature
  • Children's literature, english
  • Children's stories
  • Children's stories, english
  • Classic literature

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Quick answers

Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass was written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1889.

What genre is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fantasy, Myth & Legend Fiction, Fae & Fairy Fiction and Adventure.

How long is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass?

The median edition has 277 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass?

Readers who like it often enjoy Five Children and It, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Wind in the Willows.

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