The book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is mainly set in the fictional land of Wonderland, but there are two short segments at the beginning and end which are set in the real world, on a bank near to Alice's home which is within earshot of a busy farm-yard.The book doesn't specify the geographical location of the real world scenes, but it is most likely to be Oxford, England.It is set on May 4, in the 'now' of when the book is written so, although a year isn't specified in the text, it is set in the 1860s.