You are invited to a book discussion on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll via Zoom on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Guests of participants are welcome, even if you haven’t finished the book.

Please RSVP to thomas@pbkboston.org or join using this Zoom link.

Book Description:

This celebrated collection unites Lewis Carroll's two timeless masterpieces, following the extraordinary adventures of Alice, a bright and wonderfully curious young girl who discovers that the world is far stranger — and more wonderful — than she ever imagined. In the first tale, Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, a gloriously nonsensical realm populated by a always-late White Rabbit, a shape-shifting Cheshire Cat, a Mad Hatter lost in an eternal tea party, and a fearsome Queen of Hearts whose solution to every problem is a swift beheading. In the second, Alice steps boldly through her drawing-room mirror into a reversed looking-glass world, structured like a vast chess board, where poems come alive, flowers hold conversations, and logic itself seems to have been turned pleasantly inside out. Together, these two stories form one of the greatest achievements in children's literature—and in literature full stop. Carroll's genius lies in his ability to wrap profound philosophical playfulness and razor-sharp wit inside adventures of pure, infectious delight. More than 150 years after their first publication, Alice's journeys remain as thrilling, funny, and utterly alive as ever.