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Down the rabbit-hole and out again: How Alice helped shape our literary world.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040404
Author:Michael Dirda

ALICE'S ADVENTURES

Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture

By Will Brooker. Continuum. 376 pp. $35 It's been said that Lewis Carroll's paired classics -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its slightly more programmatic sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1872) -- are, after the Bible and Shakespeare, the most quoted books in English. "Curiouser and curiouser," "Drink Me," "Who are you?" "The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision," "Off with her head!" Such phrases instantly call to mind Wonderland and characters like the Mad Hatter and the ...

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