Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books

The title is a little misleading since many of the stories have no Alice, have no girl lead, and are related to the original stories only in that they are fantasy stories. Also, a number of the entries are only a chapter or a few chapters at most from a particular book so this is like a sampling of things.

Mopsa the Fairy, 1869. Part of a book using a strong female lead.

Amelia and the Dwarfs, 1870: It's a nice story although it is utterly unrelated to Alice.

Speaking Likenesses, 1874: Heavily moralistic.

Behind the White Brick, 1879. By the person that wrote A Secret Garden, this is a good story and has the feel of the original. She's talking to Santa Claus and he says 'And don't be too fond of flourishing your rights in people's faces-that's the worst of all, Miss Midget. Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes.'

Wanted-A King: 1890. A good story but not related to Alice.

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, 1895. It's okay.

Justnow Land, 1912. A story supporting socialism. Good.

Ernest, 1969. This has a male lead.

From Nowhere to the North Pole, 1875. Another male lead.

Down the Snow Stairs, 1887. One chapter only.

Davy and the Goblin, 1885. One chapter.

The Wallypug of Why, 1895.

New Adventures of Alice, 1907. A girl finds a third Alice book in a room where books that were wished to be written can be found.

Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland, 1916.

David Blaize and the Blue Door, 1919. Quite boring.

The Westminister Alice, 1900-1902. It's poking fun of the British government at the time.

Clara in Blunderland, 1902. Also outdated.

Alice and the Stork, 1915.

Alice in the Delighted States, 1928.

Overall it's sort of a disappointing book.


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