Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865 and remains in print to this day.  Carroll was – in his real life and under his real name – a mathematician. It is his exquisite usurping of the laws of logic and reason that established the book’s credentials with the intellectual elite of the Victorian era.

Alice in Wonderland is also, arguably, the first ‘children’s book that was designed purely to educate and delight children rather than to simply educate them in recognising the wickedness of disobedience and the stupidity of ignoring the wisdom of one’s elders.

You could argue that it was Lewis Carroll’s adventurous Alice that paved the way for all subsequent children’s literature from Peter Pan and Wind in the Willows to Roald Dahl’s Willie Wonka and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and onward to Peppa Pig, Dora the Explorer, the Power Rangers, and beyond!

Because the chapters are relatively short, each part – as presented here- contains a few chapters.

Part 1 has

Chapter 1: DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE

Chapter 2: THE POOL OF TEARS

Chapter 3: A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE

Anyway, let’s not get too carried away,  Here’s Alice in Wonderland Part 1, read for you by Maurice Newman.  Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

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