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The Forum: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

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Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) from the first edition of Lewis Carroll"s "Alice in Wonderland" (Getty Images)

22/04/2017 GMT

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

BBC World Service - The Forum, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

The story behind this weird and wonderful literary classic

The story behind Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Bridget Kendall talks to Angelika Zirker, Virginie Iché, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is said to be one of the most quoted books in the world. It has been translated into 174 languages, from Catalan to Zulu, and its fantastical creatures, nonsense words and magical happenings have become part of our shared cultural landscape. 

Bridget Kendall investigates the story behind Lewis Carroll’s Victorian literary classic and its sequel with Angelika Zirker, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Tübingen University, Germany; Virginie Iché, Associate Professor of English Studies at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France, and currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin; and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature at Oxford University in the UK, and author of ‘The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland’.

Illustration by John Tenniel (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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