Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"
Fantastic fictitious tale of Lys Carrollabout the little girl Alice, who fell into the rabbit hole and got to the Land of Wonders, has been one of the favorite fairy tales for children and their parents for almost a hundred years.History of creation
The first publication of "Alice" was held on July 4, 1865year, exactly three years after the Reverence Charles Lutvij Dodgson and His Reverend Robinson Duckworth on a boat climbed up the Thames in the company of three girls:
- Lorina Charlotte Liddell (13 years) - according to the preliminary version of "Prima"
- Alisa Pleasens Liddell (10 years) - according to the preliminary version of "Secunda"
- Edith Mary Liddell (8 years) - according to the preliminary version of "Tertia".
Alisa Liddel is a prototype of Alice's character, a photo of Lewis Carroll
The walk started from the Folly Bridge (Eng. Folly Bridge) near Oxford and ended five miles in the village of Godstow. Throughout the journey, Dodgson told the companions the story of a little girl named Alice, who went on a quest for adventure. The girls liked the story, and Alice asked Dodgson to write a story for her. Dodgson fulfilled her request and on November 26, 1864, gave Alice Liddell a manuscript entitled "Alice's adventures under the ground", with the subtitle "A Christmas Gift to an Expensive Girl in Memory of a Summer Day" (Eng. A series of biographies by Lewis Carroll, including Martin Gardner, believe that this was the first version of Alice, which was destroyed by Dodgson himself, The facts do not confirm this.
According to Dodgson's diaries, in the spring of 1863 heshowed an unfinished manuscript of a story called Alice's adventures under ground to his friend and adviser George MacDonald, who liked her children very much.
McDonald advised me to publish the manuscript. Before completing the manuscript for Alisa, Liddell Dodgson increased the volume of the work from 18 to 35 thousand words, adding the work to episodes about the Cheshire Cat and about the Crazy Tea Party. In 1865, Dodgson's work was out of print under the heading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll" with illustrations by John Tenniel. Out of the original circulation, 2,000 copies were seized and destroyed in view of Tenniel's claims to the quality of the press. Currently, only 23 surviving copies of the first edition are known. 18 copies are in the collections of various libraries and archives, 5 copies in the hands of private individuals. The second edition was published in December of the same year, 1865, although the year 1866 was already on the title. The edition was sold as soon as possible. The book has been translated into 125 languages.
In 1928 the manuscript "Alice in Wonderland" was sold to an American buyer for £ 15,400 ($ 75,260).
