Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

What this book is like

This is the original handwritten story that Lewis Carroll first told to Alice Liddell, later expanded into the famous Wonderland novel. Here you get the raw first draft, complete with the author’s own simple pen-and-ink sketches. The tone is playful, curious, and gently absurd—full of odd characters, strange logic, and quiet mischief. It follows Alice down a rabbit hole into a dreamlike underground world where nothing behaves as expected, and the narration feels intimate, as if Carroll is still speaking directly to a child by a fireside.

Anyone who loves Alice in Wonderland, literary history, or Victorian children’s fantasy will enjoy seeing the story in its earliest form. Listening rather than reading lets you hear the whimsical rhythm of Carroll’s sentences, and the shorter, rougher text makes for a quick, charming listen. Expect a simpler, less polished version of the tale you know, with the same odd charm but fewer famous episodes and characters—just the core of the adventure, told with fresh spontaneity.