Written to entertain a very real Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in
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Wonderland" on July 4, 1865.
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“I only took the regular course.” “What was that?” inquired Alice. “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
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