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Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) was an English author, poet, and gifted mathematician. He taught Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. There he met three little Liddell sisters: Lorina, Alice, and Edith.

He invented many stories for the three girls during their childhood years but the story about Alice's Adventures Under Ground became everyone's favourite. Carroll first told this story on a boat journey up the River Thames. It happened on July 4, 1862. Later, Carroll always called the day the “golden afternoon” in his writing.

Alice Liddell loved the story so much that she asked Carroll to write it down for her. He did just that. Then the writer published it as a book with a title Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book was two times bigger than the original story.

Six years later Carroll published the next story about Alice. Its title was Through the Looking Glass.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into many languages. Thousands of children and grown-ups around the world love the book about the girl who wasn't afraid to run after the White Rabbit.

Before-reading questions:

1. Lewis Carroll lived in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. What do you know about England of that time?

2. Wonderland is a world made up by Lewis Carroll. What other imagined worlds have you seen or read about? Describe them.

3. Englishmen love their puns and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is full of them. Do you know what a pun is? Find the definition of it and try to invent a pun yourself.