As Aventuras de Alice, originalmente Alice’s Adventures Underground, 1863 (As Aventuras de Alice debaixo da Terra), nasceram de uma ocasião, a 4 de Julho de 1862, em que Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, matemático e cónego, também conhecido por Lewis Carroll, levou as meninas Liddell a passear de barco no Tamisa. Nessa tarde, entreteve as crianças com histórias que, a pedido de Alice (as suas irmãs eram Lorina e Edith), passou a escrito para lhe oferecer. A presente tradução segue a versão revista por Dodgson e publicada sob o título Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland em 1865 (embora datada de 1866).
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.