Read-along
Alice's Golden Afternoon
Twelve chapters down the rabbit-hole, beginning on the afternoon the story was first told.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 4 July
- Length
- Length 12 days
On 4 July 1862 an Oxford mathematics lecturer, Charles Dodgson, rowed three little sisters up the Isis to Godstow for a picnic, and to keep them quiet he made up a story about the middle one, Alice, falling down a rabbit-hole. She asked him to write it down. Three years later it was a book, under the name Lewis Carroll, and it has never been out of print. It is much stranger and funnier than its reputation, and it was written for a child who would argue back. Twelve chapters, one a day, from the anniversary of that afternoon.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
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Day by day
- Day 1. Down the Rabbit-HoleLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 2. The Pool of TearsLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 3. A Caucus-Race and a Long TaleLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little BillLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 5. Advice from a CaterpillarLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 6. Pig and PepperLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 7. A Mad Tea-PartyLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 8. The Queen's Croquet-GroundLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 9. The Mock Turtle's StoryLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 10. The Lobster QuadrilleLewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 11. Who Stole the Tarts?Lewis Carroll, 20 min
- Day 12. Alice's EvidenceLewis Carroll, 20 min