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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

Author: Lewis Carroll

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Release Date: May 19, 2009 [EBook #28885]

Language: English

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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

[Illustration: "Alice"]

[Illustration:

ALICE'S.ADVENTURES
IN.WONDERLAND
BY.LEWIS.CARROLL
ILLUSTRATED.BY
ARTHUR.RACKHAM

WITH A PROEM BY AUSTIN DOBSON

LONDON.WILLIAM.HEINEMANN
NEW.YORK.DOUBLEDAY.PAGE.&.Co]

PRINTED IN ENGLAND

_'Tis two score years since CARROLL'S art,
With topsy-turvy magic,
Sent ALICE wondering through a part
Half-comic and half-tragic._

_Enchanting ALICE! Black-and-white
Has made your deeds perennial;
And naught save "Chaos and old Night"
Can part you now from TENNIEL;_

_But still you are a Type, and based
In Truth, like LEAR and HAMLET;
And Types may be re-draped to taste
In cloth-of-gold or camlet._

_Here comes afresh Costumier, then;
That Taste may gain a wrinkle
From him who drew with such deft pen
The rags of RIP VAN WINKLE!_

_AUSTIN DOBSON._

All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.

Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To st