A girl follows a waistcoated rabbit down a hole into a nonsensical world of talking creatures, riddles, and a murderous queen. The masterpiece of literary nonsense.
Books that mention Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (25)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut: “Dwayne did to Trout what the Duchess did to Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.”
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton: “for Alice must grow small if she is to be Alice in Wonderland.”
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott: “…whale beside its mother; while the lads careered about, looking like a flock of distracted flamingoes, and acting like the famous dancing party in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."”
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: “Jane Eyre or Alice in Wonderland”
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie: “looked exactly like the Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland”
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence: “Strange it all was, like Alice in Wonderland.”
Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis: “Isn't this like Alice in Wonderland!”
The Magus by John Fowles: “as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.”
On Beauty by Zadie Smith: “With his free hand Howard took a turn-of-the-century edition of Alice in Wonderland off the shelf and brought it with Murdoch to the couch.”
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: “'Maya, do you remember when we read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last year?'”
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim: “Alice in Wonderland, after she had drunk the contents of the magic bottle, could not have grown smaller more suddenly than I grew younger the moment I passed through that magic door.”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “polishing the leaves with meticulous care, like some crazed gardener from Alice in Wonderland.”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “an oversized edition of Peter Pan with what appeared to be the original illustrations; the moss-green binding of Alice in Wonderland.”
Just Kids by Patti Smith: “My experience most closely mirrored the “eat me, drink me” scene in Alice in Wonderland.”
The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume: “I noticed myself, Archie, the oddity of finding a cornfield surrounded by cottages. It's like Alice in Wonderland.”
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome: “we should miss Muriel's rendering of "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party," out of _Alice in Wonderland_.”
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman: “It was told by the Mouse from Alice in Wonderland, the Mouse she met swimming in the pool of her own tears.”
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett: “Sitting there with his hands pressed together like something out of Alice in Wonderland, he gave no hint of what he was thinking. Low confidence: this is a passing simile/comparison rather than a scene of the Queen actually reading the book, but the title named is specific and unambiguous, so kept per the project's generosity rule for…”
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: ““What’s that book you’re hiding?” “Here, I’m not hiding it.” “Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You’re too big for that.” Cathy said, “I can get to be so little you can’t even see me.””
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Consider a possibly typical group of Earth beings at the tea party from Alice in Wonderland.”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: “He has several highly valuable editions that I envy: Dore's Inferno, Dali's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Picasso's Lysistrata.”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: Cited in the same passage as an example of fantasy readers' pleasure in unraveling internal logic
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Even in America many of us give our children imaginative books to read—Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte's Web.”
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: “Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They're from Alice in Wonderland.”