Alice's Misadventures Underground: The Complete Annotated Oxford Text
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Hidden away for more than 130 years in an attic, the most important literary scandal of the twenty-first century has been unearthed: the previously unpublished works of infamous Victorian author, Lewis C. Swanson. Inspired by an angel to become a famous writer, Swanson (18301865) devoted his entire life to that pursuit. An adjunct professor of English literature at Oxford University, he was a contemporary of childrens author and mathematician, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Scholars now contend that Swanson is the original author of Carrolls masterpiece, Alices Adventures in Wonderland. The tragic victim of Carrolls plagiarizing, Swanson committed literary suicide in 1865 and died in absolute obscurity. Swanson finally earns his place in the annals of literature with this new English translation of the original story. Painstaking research has gone into annotating the lost manuscript, proving, once and for all, that Swanson was the original author of the famous work attributed to Carroll. This special edition includes a foreword from Miskatonic University professor Sebastian Edwards, and an introduction by eminent scholar Daniel E. B. Edwards. Alices Misadventures Underground tells the familiar story of a little girl who chases after a rabbit, only to find herselflost in a dangerous wonderland of dubious learning.
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Item number (ASIN): 0595403867
Author: Bradley E. Craddock
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Edition: 0
ISBN: 0595403867
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 194
Package Dimensions: 60 x 600 x 1740 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: November 16, 2006
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
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- Sublimely ridiculous...This novel is one of the freshest and most relaxing I have read in years. It has moments of wryness, and moments of literal laughing out loud. I caught so many 'in jokes' referring to novels and events and movies outside of the novel, that I just know there are more laughs to be had. Whatever you do, do NOT skip the lengthy introductions--- they are part of the joke...
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- Nothing Succeeds Like ExcessAt its core, this novel is a parody of Charles Dodgson's (aka Lewis Carroll's) "Alice" books, but threaded through the footnotes and annotations, Bradley Craddock also tells the story of Lewis Swanson, a fictitious contemporary and rival of Dodgson. It is this added layer of complexity that elevates the novel above simple parody. The result is a depiction of Victorian England that is, in many ways, more amusing than the underground world that Alice is exploring. In lesser hands, such storytelling would falter on its own conceits, but in this book Craddock shines as a chameleon of letters, breathlessly metamorphosing between literary styles at a captivating (if somewhat dizzying) pace. If a complaint is going to be raised against this book, it is that the author clearly likes the sound of his own voice. Fortunately the writing is just so damn good that this indulgence is a virtue rather than a sin.
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