Author : Sherry L. Ackerman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9781847184863
Through examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto unquestioned, Sherry Ackerman positions Lewis Carroll in the theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a Carroll whose radical religio-philosophical counter-response to patriarchal materialism moved his intellectual journey deep into the waters of mysticism.
Author : Frank Beddor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101221461
The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss? parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
Author : Jake Fior
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781527256903
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Fantasy
ISBN :
Author : Christina Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984805630
In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood. Lovely Creature In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock... Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned... When I First Came to Town Hatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive... The Mercy Seat There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path...
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
ISBN : 1616402261
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass was originally published in 1865/1872"--T.p. verso.
Author : Carla Jablonski
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1484730674
Based on events from the film Alice Through the Looking Glass, this unique illustrated novel allows readers to follow Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen and the White Queen as the characters journey through time. Each of the four characters have their own new, distinct art style to accompany their unpredictable adventures. As the readers travel along, they will be faced with choices that may turn the world upside down.
Author : Rebecca K. Shrum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 142142312X
The evolving technology of the looking glass -- First glimpses : mirrors in seventeenth-century New England -- Looking glass ownership in early America -- Reliable mirrors and troubling visions : nineteenth-century white -- Understandings of sight -- Fashioning whiteness -- Mirrors in black and red -- Epilogue
Author : Chris Riddell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1529023262
A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This beautifully illustrated collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal experiences of the heart and are brought to life with Chris's exquisite, intricate artwork. This perfect gift, this book features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Carol Ann Duffy, E. E. Cummings, Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen, Derek Walcott, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest, John Betjeman and Roger McGough and many more. Enjoy more poetry with Chris's Poems to Live Your Life By, one of the Bookseller's best poetry books of the last twenty-five years.
Author : Eric Shepherd
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2014-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1503526674
Most people wish they could get a second chance in life... A do over... and correct those mistakes that now lay hidden or buried in their closet. They wish they could hide all those painful memories and lock them all away into a box. Buried them so deep, hoping they never resurface rather than too face them at all. EJ Stuart is just such a person, yet his memories are not the same nor are the hardships of abuse caused by a broken home the same as another man’s down the street. His nightmares are worlds apart than any man has ever faced. He dreams of darkness, everlasting darkness so evil that it can tear a man’s mind apart. Death to some is only a beginning to something else, but what if it was designed to change the outcome entirely, yes a redo. But what of the cost and are you willing to pay for it, even if it is your very soul is at stake? EJ Stuart as man now, a statuses quo in this world is given the opportunity. But first he must choose to as he sits one last time on porch alone waging war with his darkest thoughts. That brought him to this stage of life which hunts his dreams and has now entered his waking state. Which will he chose? Death... or a chance to change his destiny forever, knowing his very soul is at stake. Knowing he could never come back. Knowing his life could be changed forever and others around him. For this choice is a gift which can only be obtained Behind the Looking Glass. Where worlds such as Nightmares, Monsters and Fairytales are real and some or seeking his very soul others are asking for help his help to save his and their world from the grasp of evil. Choose well.
