The Annotated Alice
Contributors: Gardner (Editor)
Publisher: Plume
Published: July 1, 1974
ISBN-13: 9780452008229
First sentence: 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?"