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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.[1][2] The book has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages. Its legacy covers adaptations for screen, radio, art, ballet, opera, musicals, theme parks, board games and video games.[3] Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled Through the Looking-Glass and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890. Background "All in the golden afternoon..." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was inspired when, on 4 July 1862, Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up The Isis in a boat with three young girls.The three girls were the daughters of scholar Henry Liddell: Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13; "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10; "Secunda" in the verse); and Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8; "Tertia" in the verse) The journey began at Folly Bridge, Oxford, and ended 5 miles (8.0 km) away in Godstow, Oxfordshire. During the trip Dodgson told the girls a story that he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and which his diary says he "undertook to write out for Alice". Alice Liddell recalled that she asked Dodgson to write it down: unlike other stories he had told her, this one she wanted to preserve. She finally got the manuscript more than two years later.[9] 4 July was known as the "golden afternoon", prefaced in the novel as a poem.[10] In fact, the weather around Oxford on 4 July was "cool and rather wet", although at least one scholar has disputed this claim Scholars debate whether Carroll in fact came up with Alice during the "golden afternoon" or whether the story was developed over a longer period. Carroll had known the Liddell children since around March 1856, when he befriended Harry Liddell. He met Lorina by early March as well Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, who wrote a literary biography of Carroll, suggests that Carroll favoured Alice Pleasance Liddell in particular because her name was ripe for allusion. "Pleasance" means pleasure and the name "Alice" appeared in contemporary works including the poem "Alice Gray" by William Mee, of which Carroll wrote a parody; and Alice is a character in "Dream-Children: A Reverie", a prose piece by Charles Lamb. Our goal is to produce Audio Books that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iPhone, iPad, or Android. Get any audiobook FREE at Audiobookfest. Free audio books and eBooks. Search, browse, listen, read and download over 100000 free audio books and eBooks. a voluntary work by Headroom team.