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Alice in Wonderland

In 1865 the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published a slim children's book under the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll". Read as a children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a rollicking fantasy populated by anthropomorphic animals, magic potions, an army of playing cards, and whimsical poetry. Since its publication, however, careful readers have discovered sophisticated mathematical puzzles and riddles, psychological insights, and have enjoyed a wonderful variety of interpretations (see, for example, Mark Burstein's paper on the subject) about the work's literary and psychological merit.

Alice in Wonderland has attracted readers all over the world. The book has been translated and issued in multiple languages. Many talented graphic designers and artists have undertaken to provide illustrations to match the imaginative fantasy Dodgson created.

Dr. Sandor Burstein, a retired physician who lives in San Francisco, began to collect editions and memorabilia related to Lewis Carroll three decades ago. (Cf.: Rare Book Search and Research.) Today, his son, Mark, maintains the collection. They have made some of the very old, rare, and international editions available for digitizing and online comparison.

You can enjoy each edition in detail by clicking on a selected cover (below). This will cause a new window with a Libraries Without Walls "book viewer", in which you can browse among the individual pages in the selected edition.

Some of the editions may still be in process, if they have been recently added to the database. If the book viewer is temporarily empty, please check back in a day or so.

Were you to be interested in providing financial support for the digitization of collections of similar nature, please write: grants@librarieswithoutwalls.org.

Dutch Dutch
Esperanto Esperanto
Farsi Farsi
French1 French
Illust: Rackham
French (2) French
Illust: Tenniel
German (1) German (Wonderland)
Illust: Birnbaum
Austria
German (Looking Glass)
illust: Birnbaum
German (2) German
Illust: Tenniel
Greek Greek
Hungarian Hungarian
Italian Italian
Polish Polish
Romanian Romanian
Russian Russian
SpanishSpanish
SwahiliSwahili
UK-Maybank UK
Illust: Maybank
UK-Pease UK
Illust: Pease
UK-Rackham UK
Illust: Rackham
UK-Robinson UK
Illust: Robinson
UK-Rountree UK
Illust: Rountree
US-McManus US
Illust: McManus
US-Pogany US
Illust: Pogany
US-Winter US
Illust: Winter

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