Original 'Alice' online at the British Library

Go Ask Alice

Lewis Carroll's original, hand-written manuscript of Alice in Wonderland (then called Alice's Adventures Underground) has been put online by the British Library here. If you have Shockwave installed, you can virtually turn the 3D pages, and there's an optional voiceover if, like the real Alice, you like to be read to. Many of Carroll's amateur illustrations are similar in form to Tenniel's in the published version, interestingly enough.

Other books the British Library has put online at the site include the Diamond Sutra, Jane Austen's History of England, Leonardo's sketchbook, the Lindisfarne Gospels and the circa-1570s Mercator Atlas of Europe, among others.