Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (1865) - English reading excerpt

|. Down the Rabbit-Hole

Opening two paragraphs

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had
no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without

pictures or conversations?”

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her
feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth
the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink

eyes ran close by her.

Short excerpt, not a complete chapter. Original English text: public domain in the US. Sample typesetting:
CCO. No illustrations or modern published translation included.