Welcome to an Evening in Wonderland...

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

DID YOU KNOW?

Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a shy math professor at Oxford.

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Lewis Carroll was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.

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Inspired by a boating excursion in 1862, Lewis Carroll's famous story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally intended only to entertain three of his friends, who were children. The author set the oral story down in print so that the children might have it on hand to read for themselves. After showing it to another writer, Carroll was finally persuaded to publish his book.

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The character of Alice was based on a real life girl, Alice Liddell, the youngest daughter of Carroll's friend Dean Henry Liddell.

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In “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice enters the fantasy world on her seventh birthday.  In the sequel she returns six months later.

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According to Wikipedia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 125 languages.

When it was released Alice in Wonderland received little attention. It received poor reviews with reviewers giving more credit to the illustrations than to Carroll’s story.  

By the release of Through the Looking-Glass, the first novel gained popularity and by the end of the 19th century Sir Walter Besant wrote that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland "was a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete."

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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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