How does Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland end?

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Lewis Carroll British novelist Lewis Carroll, 1863.

In the final scenes of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is called as a witness during the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who is accused of stealing the Queen’s tarts. When the Queen of Hearts demands that Alice be beheaded, Alice realizes that the characters are merely a pack of cards. Following this realization, she awakens from her dream.1