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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Alice in Wonderland
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(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Children's book by Lewis *Carroll, illustrated by *Tenniel. It begins with Alice following the White Rabbit down his hole, then falling down a great well, at the bottom of which she drinks a liquid which makes her tiny and then eats a cake which makes her huge. Her comment, 'Curiouser and curiouser!', describes also the course her adventures will take.
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They include the hookah-smoking Caterpillar who makes her recite the poem You are old, Father William to prove she has not lost her memory; the Cheshire Cat, which can vanish, leaving its grin to the last; the Mad Tea-Party, with the Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse; the King and Queen of Hearts, on whose croquet-ground the mallets are flamingoes and in whose law court the trial is held to discover who stole the tarts; and the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon who sing and dance the Lobster Quadrille. The story ends when the Queen of Hearts shouts 'Off with her head!' and Alice wakens from her dream. Her later adventures in fantasy were told in *Through the Looking-Glass.
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