There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “DRINK ME,” beautifully printed on it in large letters.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.
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- Painting the Roses
- A Neck Like a Stalk
- Putting the Lizard right
- Find the Moral
- 'DRINK ME'
- Alice Topples the Jury
- Parade of Hearts
- Which Children Make Pigs?
- The Serpentine Neck
- School beneath the waves
- When Dreams Fill the Room
- The Queen's Ultimatum
- A Grin Without a Cat
- A Garden of Noises
- Who Am I?
- When 'natural' feels impossible
- After the story, a dream
- The Queen's Orders
- The Caterpillar's Choice
- Two directions, two madnesses
- Who Am I?
- The Vanishing Cat
- Beautiful Soup Song
- Rule Forty‑two
- Tea with a Sleepy Cushion
- A swarm, a scream, the bank
- Beautiful Soup
- The Duchess's Moral
- The Goldfish Accident
- Everybody wins, says the Dodo
- The Curious Drink
- The Tiny Door and the Garden
- What if Time listened?
- No atom of meaning
- The Duchess's peculiar moral
- The 'EAT ME' Cake
- When Words Swap Places
- Keeping the child alive
- I was a different person then
- Called by Name
- Off with Her Head
- The Mock Turtle's Sigh
- The Lobster Quadrille beckons
- An Inkstand Attack
- A Grim Decision
- Stretching Like a Telescope
- Meaning—or Not?
- Between Worlds
- Mind Your Own Business
- A Mock Curriculum
- No Pictures, No Interest
- Ten Inches High
- Therefore I'm mad
- The White Rabbit's Watch
- One Royal Solution
- When play becomes prosecution