Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 《艾丽丝漫游奇境记》

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a book that tells the story of a girl names Alice who follows a white rabbit into a rabbit hole that leads into a strange world. The author, Lewis Carroll (1832—1898) was a mathematician and logician, but was famous for this book. He first thought of these stories one day while he was boating up the Thames River with a friend and her three daughters. Carroll started to tell the children stories about a girl named Alice. He later wrote these stories down for those three girls, and later, in 1865, the tales were published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book was a slow but steadily increasing success, and by the time of Lewis Carroll's death it had become the most popular children's book in England.

《艾丽丝漫游奇境记》是英国作家刘易斯·卡洛尔于1865年出版的儿童文学作品。刘易斯·卡洛尔是一个数学家和逻辑学家，可让他成名的却是这本《艾丽丝漫游奇境记》。这个故事源自卡洛尔给一位朋友的女儿所讲的一个故事。故事叙述一个名叫艾丽丝的女孩在梦中追赶小白兔，掉进兔洞，经历了许多奇遇。本书出版发行之后使刘易斯·卡洛尔一举成名，该书也曾是英国最受欢迎的儿童读物之一。

（本文选自人民教育出版社《中学英语文化背景知识手册》，2008年8月第1版）