Project Gutenberg #11
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
1865Carroll's literary-nonsense classic, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext for vocabulary-focused reading.
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Chapter 1 — CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Central question What prompts Alice to follow the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole? Main argument Curiosity about a talking, watch-toting rabbit leads her to explore...
Well, I’ll eat it,” said
Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it
makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll
get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which way? Which
way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was
growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same
size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice
had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way
things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go
on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
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