Lewis Carroll’s classic tales of Alice go almost without introduction – but many in our day an age know the story only from an infinity of TV adaptations. That’s a shame, because Carroll was a delightful writer: …Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door…Poor Alice! Alice may be poor, but all who read of her are wealthy in a way that’s utterly uncommon.