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Alice in Wonderland, tired on the bank

Lewis Carroll 1865 301 characters easy

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 reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?

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Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll, told the first version of this story during a boat trip on the Thames near Oxford on 4 July 1862. The book was published in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church and wrote on logic under his own name. Project Gutenberg holds the full text.

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Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll, told the first version of this story during a boat trip on the Thames near Oxford on 4 July 1862. The book was published in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church and wrote on logic under his own name. Project Gutenberg holds the full text.

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