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2) Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's dreamchild as seen through the critics' looking-glasses, 1865-1971
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 450 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland comes this richly illustrated and expanded collector's edition of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. First appearing in 1960, The Annotated Alice became an instant classic by, among other things, decoding the wordplay and mathematical riddles embedded within Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. As a result, Martin Gardner's groundbreaking work went on to sell over a million copies,...
6) Down: poems
Author
Publisher
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
69 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Instead of the usual fairy tale, Abby finds herself in the middle of a book, Alice in Wonderland, with two of her friends, plus bossy Penny (who is definitely not a friend), and in order to get back to reality she must solve a curious riddle, find one of her friends who is missing, and somehow avoid getting her head cut off by the Red Queen--and figure out what she is going to tell the other girls if they ever get out of Wonderland.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the inspiration behind, and the making of, one of the greatest...
11) Splintered
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers -- precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother's mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was...
13) Novels for students: Volume 7 :presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations, photos.
Language
English
Description
Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
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