page_title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
section_title: Publication timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Publication history / Publication timeline
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context_page_description: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.
  One of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The work has never been out of print, and it has been translated into at least 97 languages. Its ongoing legacy encompasses many adaptations for stage, screen, radio, art, theme parks, board games, and video games. Carroll published a sequel in 1871, entitled Through the Looking-Glass, and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890.
context_section_description: The following list is a timeline of major publication events related to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
  1865: First U.K. edition (the second printing); first U.S. edition (the first printing of U.K. edition).
  1869: Published in German as Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, translated by Antonie Zimmermann.
  1869: Published in French as Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles, translated by Henri Bué.
  1870: Published in Swedish as Alice's Äventyr i Sagolandet, translated by Emily Nonnen.
  1871: Dodgson meets another Alice, Alice Raikes, during his time in London. He talks with her about her reflection in a mirror, leading to the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, which sells even better.
  1872: Published in Italian as Le Avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, translated by Teodorico Pietrocòla Rossetti.
  1879: First Russian edition published as Соня в царстве Дива, translated by Yury Nesterenko.
  1882: Selchow & Righter releases The Game of Alice in Wonderland, the first game based on the book.
  1886: Carroll publishes a facsimile of the earlier Alice's Adventures Under Ground manuscript.
  1890: Carroll publishes The Nursery "Alice", a special edition "to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five".
   
  1899: First Japanese edition of an Alice novel is published as 鏡世界, a translation of Through the Looking-Glass rather than the first book.
  1905: Mrs J. C. Gorham publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable in a series of such books published by A. L. Burt Company, aimed at young readers. (ISBN 978-1-904808-44-2)
  1906: Published in Finnish as Liisan seikkailut ihmemaailmassa, translated by Anni Swan.
  1907: Copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expires in UK, entering the tale into the public domain. At least 8 new editions would be published in this year alone.
  1910: Published in Esperanto as La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando, translated by E. L. Kearney.
  1915: A dramatic screenplay script rendering of Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gerstenberg is published as Alice in Wonderland; a dramatization of Lewis Carrolls 'Alices adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the looking glass.
  1916: First edition of the Windermere Series is published: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Milo Winter.
  1928: The manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground written and illustrated by Carroll, which he had given to Alice Liddell, was sold at Sotheby's on 3 April. It sold to Philip Rosenbach for £15,400, a world record for the sale of a manuscript at the time.
  1945: Animated picture book is published, with illustrations and paper engineering by Julian Wehr.
  1960: American writer Martin Gardner publishes a special edition, The Annotated Alice, incorporating the text of both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It includes extensive annotations explaining the hidden allusions in the books, as well as full texts of the Victorian-era poems parodied in them. Later editions expand on these annotations.
  1961: The Folio Society edition is published, including 42 illustrations by John Tenniel.
  1988: Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne, illustrator of an edition from Julia MacRae Books, wins the Kurt Maschler Award (aka the Emil) for the year's best British "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."
  1998: Carroll's own copy of Alice, one of only six surviving copies of the 1865 first edition, is sold at an auction for US$1.54 million to an anonymous American buyer, becoming the most expensive children's book (or 19th-century work of literature) ever sold to that point.
  1999: Lewis Carroll and Helen Oxenbury, illustrator of an edition from Walker Books, win the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated writing and illustration.
  2001: Harper Collins publishes an edition with illustrations by Deloss McGraw.
  2007: In celebration of the British Kate Greenaway Medal's 50th anniversary (1955–2005), the 1999 Walker Books edition illustrated by Helen Oxenbury is named as one of the t
caption: 1884 edition by Macmillan
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