A lice in Wonderland is one of the most often-quoted books in English, up there with the big deals like the Bible and Hamlet. But this most influential story was indeed written down at the request of a little girl. In this children's work, not only do logic and causality work differently in Wonderland, but all the people and animals there seem to be a little bit insane. But there is profundity behind insanity. Among …showed first 75 words of 1248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1248 total…as: is it necessary for Carroll to use the time-honored framework of a dream that goes back to ancient English texts as the fourteenth-century Piers Plowman in a children's tale? And do the frequent references to death in the story show that Alice is a Victorian Goth? To discover those, the best way, I think, is what Lewis Carroll wrote in the Easter Greeting Letter to every child who loves Alice in 1876: "Please to Fancy!"