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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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    Lewis Carroll is a pen name

    His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He taught mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.

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    He is the Dodo

    Dodgson sometimes stuttered his name as Do-Do-Dodgson, so he put himself in the book as the Dodo.

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    Friends in the Caucus-race

    The Duck is Robinson Duckworth, and the Lory and the Eaglet are Alice's sisters Lorina and Edith.

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    174 languages

    It has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages.

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    The first print run was stopped

    Tenniel was unhappy with the printing quality, so the first 2,000 copies were held back.

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    No Tea-Party at first

    The Mad Tea-Party was not in the handwritten version. It was added for the book.

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    The manuscript was sold

    Alice Liddell later sold the handwritten Under Ground book at Sotheby's for £15,400. It is now in the British Library.

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    First film in 1903

    A British silent film made in 1903 was the first screen version.

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