Books inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Many authors were inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". They wrote books in Carroll's style, or encorporated an Alice theme into their works. Several authors even tried to write another sequel or prequel for the Alice books. Here you can find a selection.
Are you disappointed that Carroll only wrote two 'Alice' books? Keith Sheppard's daughter was. So he decided to write a third adventure, in Lewis Carroll's familiar style.
During the night, Alice's bed mysteriously turns into a boat, and she drifts off to Wonderland once more. She meets many characters, some new, some familiar, but they all want to play games with her. However, the rules in Wonderland are somewhat different than Alice is used to...
Although it lacks the deeper layers from the original stories, Sheppard's tale is charming and contains several great puns and jokes in Carrolian style. Some are based on Carroll's ("If you don't know where you are trying to get to, how do you know you haven't arrived"), some are brand new ("A lost memory can be very hard to find, because you can never remember where you put it").
The book is illustrated by Cynthia Brownell. Personally I'm not very fond of her illustrations, but that may be a matter of taste.
I definitely recommend this book to everyone who is longing to read another simple, yet amusing story about Alice and a strange journey through the Wonderland of games.
Automated Alice is written as a sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
Instead of falling down a rabbit hole or going through a looking glass, in this book Alice travels through a grandfather clock to Manchester England in 1998. This Manchester however, is a world populated by half-humans who ride on mechanical horses and where computers are powered by termites called Computermites. Alice must figure out how to get back to her own time with the help of a parrot that speaks in riddles and an automated Alice with a termite brain.
Alice's adventures bear a lot of resemblance to the original stories. Noon tries to emulate Carroll's wordplay throughout the book, but I think he only partly succeeds in it. Sometimes it results in ingenious new puns that made me smile, but at other times they felt a little far-fetched and gave me the idea the author had trouble inventing an appropriate pun.
The book amused me at first, but when I was half way it was much more of the same thing. It started to bore me and I never actually finished the story.
This book is another Alice story, in which Alice experiences new adventures and encounters new strange creatures.
Alice and her cat Snowball are debating what the moon with an eclipse on the horizon is made of. She wonders whether it could be made of green cheese, and how tasty that would be. She eventually decides to pay the moon a visit.
The story is written by R J Carter, but is presented as a lost Lewis Carroll manuscript, complete with annotations and original illustrations.
When her parents, the king and queen of Wonderland, are killed by her Aunt Redd, Alyss Heart escapes by jumping into the Pool of Tears. Her jump takes her to Victorian Oxford, where she emerges from a puddle, lives as a street urchin, and is eventually adopted by Reverend and Mrs. Liddell.
Unable to make anyone believe her fantastic story, she finally confides in Charles Dodgson, who says he will write a book about her. When she discovers that Alice's Adventures Underground is full of make-believe, and not her story or her real name, she sadly resigns herself to life as a Victorian girl of privilege.
Meanwhile, back in Wonderland, the Alyssians form a resistance movement and attempt to overthrow the despotic Redd. For years, Hatter Madigan searches the world for Alyss so she can return to Wonderland as Queen. In the end, the Alyssians prevail, but only after much graphic bloodshed and many brutal battles involving card soldiers who transform into warriors, chessmen, blades that whirl and slash, vicious Jabberwocks, and even carnivorous roses.
Opinions about this book differ. Some love it, but more people hate it because it is too violent for a Wonderland.
Very amiable story by Doucette, who sent it to me for feedback, before it was published.
The book has some similarities with the popular DaVinci Code, as it is also based on true events and gives its own twist to existing opinions about those events. Only this story makes less use of codes.
The story contains many references to and quotes from the Alice books, which makes the story interesting to read for people who are familiar with the Alice stories.
The illustrations are of Doucette's own hand, and look great. The illustrations resemble spotlights, that have suddenly appeared, and enable us to see a fragment of what is happening in the story world. Somehow they remind me of the illustrations for Le Petit Prince.
1898. Holmes and Watson encounter American newspaper magnate, John Moxton, whose yellow press Clarion is beginning to dominate and undermine Victorian England. Public figures are humiliated then murdered.
Each incident has a parallel in Alice in Wonderland. And each time the Clarion is conveniently on hand. What is Moxton's master plan and can Homes and Waston unravel it in time? And what is the strange bond that links the detective to a man he has never met... or has he?
A collection of stories by various writers, among which Donya Currie Arias, Beth Bachmann, Bruce Bauman, Jeffrey M. Bockman, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, and Ann Downer. Photos by Nancy Taylor.
It's Walt Disney meets H. G. Wells' Time Machine when Emma Thomas' best friend loses the silver dollar that Emma loaned her for a seventh grade school project.
Dana offer's her twelve-year-old friend a replica of a magic token once owned by Charles Dickens. Reluctantly taking it, Emma scoffs at the claims on the magic token package that the famous 19th century author used it to time travel for his book research.
During an argument with her younger brother, Emma accidentally wishes herself back to 1862 and joins Alice in Wonderland. Along their journey Emma breaks up the Caucus racers, acts as policewoman for a loud-mouthed Duchess and her pan-throwing cook, trades insults with the pipe-smoking Caterpillar and the grinning Cheshire Cat, disrupts the Queen of Heart's croquet match, stirs the Mad Hatter's tea party into an even madder, madcap, madhouse, and plays defense attorney to try to stop the Queen of Hearts from chopping off Alice's head.
Having lost the magic token somewhere in Wonderland, can Emma escape, or is she trapped in Alice's mad, mad, mad, upside-down world forever?
Talasek's Alice is studying towards her MBA degree at Ivy League University. One day, while preparing herself for her final exams, she falls asleep. In her dream, Alice is thrusted into the world of corporate America.
We follow Alice during her first chaotic day of work at the company Wonderland, Inc., when she goes off to explore corporate programs, policies, and self-aggrandizing executives, manifested as a menagerie of familiar characters from the original Alice in Wonderland story.
After the publication of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, a lot of imitations, revisions, and parodies of Carroll's fantasies for children were produced. In this anthology, Carolyn Sigler gathers twenty of the most interesting and original of these responses to the Alice books, many of them long out of print.
Alternately satiric, enchanting, experimental, and subversive, these Alice-inspired works reveal how variously Carroll's books were read, re-inscribed, and resisted in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In Fantastic Alice, 17 authors rework material by Lewis Carroll; from Alice's adventures in the underground railroad to her encounters with the inner rabbit, and several stories that bring Carrollian characters to the real world.
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