The first story about Alice was a manuscript entitled “Alice’s Adventures Underground” written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll (really Charles Dodgson) and presented to Alice Liddell as “A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child, in Memory of a Summer Day” in November 1864. Carroll then substantially revised and extended the story to produce the version known as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. The first edition of this was published in 1865 and was illustrated by John Tenniel. In 1871 Carroll published Alice's further adventures in “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”.

The copyright on these texts, and on the Tenniel pictures, has expired. Public domain electronic versions of the texts in “just plain ASCII” are available from Project Gutenberg. Other Alice material is available at the “Lewis Carroll home page”.

The editions available on this page are in Acrobat format. The Acrobat reader is available free of charge from Adobe.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (3.1 MBytes). I designed and typeset this version myself; it’s intended for on-line reading. It includes the Tenniel illustrations. Your use of it is subject to my copyright.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (2.4 MBytes). This comes from a CD-ROM collection of Acrobat samples distributed for free by Adobe (a few years ago). It includes illustrations based on the Tenniel ones. The file has no copyright information in it. I’m guessing that since it was free and its primary purpose was to demonstrate use of Adobe Acrobat, nobody will object to it being available here.