A facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original handwritten manuscript of the children's story that later became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with thirty-seven illustrations by the author. It follows Alice as she pursues a White Rabbit down a hole into a curious underground world. Worth listening to for a glimpse of the tale in an early form.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
19002 (Black and White illustrations)
19033 (Illustrations in Color and Black and White)
28885 (Illustrations in Color and Black and White)
Transcriber's Note:
This e-book has been transcribed from a facsimile of the original handwritten MS. of Lewis Carroll. Images of some of the pages is given on line to give a feeling of the MS. to the reader.
An additional version with cursive fonts to imitate the handwriting, is provided below for the benefit of the reader.
ALICE'S ADVENTURES
UNDER GROUND
BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE
ORIGINAL MS. BOOK
AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO
"ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND"
BY LEWIS CARROLL WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1886 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE