Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

								


            And with a gentle hand

          Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined

            In Memory's mystic band,

          Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers

            Pluck'd in a far-off land.

CONTENTS

                                                      PAGE



             I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE                     1



            II. THE POOL OF TEARS                       13



           III. A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE           24



            IV. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL       35



             V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR               49



            VI. PIG AND PEPPER                          64



           VII. A MAD TEA-PARTY                         82



          VIII. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND              96



            IX. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY                111



             X. THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE                  126



            XI. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?                   139



           XII. ALICE'S EVIDENCE                       150

LIST OF THE PLATES

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          Alice                             Frontispiece



          The Pool of Tears                             22



          They all crowded round it panting and

             asking, "But who has won?"                 28



          "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out

             here?"                                     36



          Advice from a Caterpillar                     50



          An unusually large saucepan flew close

             by it, and very nearly carried it off      70



          It grunted again so violently that she

             looked down into its face in some alarm    74



          A Mad Tea-Party                               84



          The Queen turned angrily away from him

             and said to the Knave, "Turn them over"   100



          The Queen never left off quarrelling

             with the other players, and shouting

             "Off with his head!" or, "Off with her

             head!"                                    116



          The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and

             said, "That's very curious"               132



          Who stole the Tarts?                         140



          At this the whole pack rose up into the

             air, and came flying down upon her        158

CHAPTER I

[Sidenote: Down the Rabbit-Hole]
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her
sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice,
"without pictures or conversations?"
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid) whether the pleasure of
making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and