Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, aged 66, shortly before he died in 1898. His famous children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) are classics of English literature, combining fantastic adventure and nonsense.

Children's story, published in 1865, by Lewis Carroll (originally published as Alice's Adventures Under Ground). Alice dreams she follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and meets fantastic characters such as the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the King and Queen of Hearts. With its companion volume Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872), it is one of the most quoted works in the English language. Both volumes were illustrated by John Tenniel.

An Alice-in-Wonderland situation has come to mean an absurd or irrational situation, because of the dreamlike logic of Alice's adventures in the book.