Sleepy and tired from the heat, Alice was just considering whether it was worth getting up to pick daisies to make a crown when suddenly a white rabbit with red eyes ran right past her. This was not particularly strange; Alice thought nothing unusual about hearing the rabbit say, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" But when the rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it... Carefully revised reprint of the original German edition from 1869.