Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Lewis Carroll

LIST OF THE PLATES _To face page_ Alice _Frontispiece_ The Pool of Tears ...

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Lewis Carroll

[Illustration] I--DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.