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Charles Dickens's evolving use and mastery of using fairy tales, folklore, dreams, and myths in his writings is studied beginning with a historical background and ending with an exploration of 'Great Expectations.'

Hardcover:

9780253183668, titled "Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Novel-Making" | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1979, cover price $17.50 | also contains Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Novel-Making | About this edition: Charles Dickens's evolving use and mastery of using fairy tales, folklore, dreams, and myths in his writings is studied beginning with a historical background and ending with an exploration of 'Great Expectations.

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When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties.

Hardcover:

9781910619810 | Classic Comic Store Ltd, January 19, 2016, cover price $15.95 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9781409311232 | Reissue edition (Trafalgar Square Books, September 1, 2015), cover price $8.99 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9780956266828 | Gardners Books, October 28, 2010, cover price $11.30 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9781904633327, titled "Alices Adventures in Wonderland" | New edition (Collectors Library, October 1, 2009), cover price $9.95 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland | About this edition: When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland.
9780766631847 | Ill abr edition (Modern Pub, September 1, 2008), cover price $3.00 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
29 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Paperback:

9781532805011 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 20, 2016, cover price $6.95 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9781523204854 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 2016, cover price $12.99 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9781519756756 | Limited edition (Createspace Independent Pub, December 8, 2015), cover price $8.50 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
9781519717429 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 7, 2015, cover price $7.99 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland | About this edition: The story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.
9781519609847 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $12.00 | also contains Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland
56 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Miscellaneous:

9780735301290 | Pzzl edition (Galison Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $10.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786184248 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2005), cover price $24.95
9781589261679 | Oasis Audio, September 1, 2003, cover price $17.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787119485 | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, May 1, 1999), cover price $18.00
9780786112142 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $17.95
9780140862195 | Penguin/Highbridge, June 1, 1997, cover price $10.95
9780553478129 | Bantam Audio, February 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Presents adaptations of the classic accounts of Alice's adventures and encounters with the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and other characters.
9781558006768 | Dove Entertainment Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $6.95
6 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

School and Library:

9780698400528 | Minedition, September 20, 2007, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Library:

9781596792357 | Spotlight, January 1, 2005, cover price $21.35 | About this edition: By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.
9780394906270 | Random House Childrens Books, March 1, 1982, cover price $3.99

Prebinding:

9780613666121 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
9780833511645 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.10

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Product Description: Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads...read more

Paperback:

9780786496228 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 17, 2014, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children.

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Product Description: Children's literature, as we know it today, first came into existence in Britain in the eighteenth century. This is the first major study to consider who the first users of this new product were, which titles they owned, how they acquired and used their books, and what they thought of them...read more

Hardcover:

9780521196444 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 28, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Children's literature, as we know it today, first came into existence in Britain in the eighteenth century.

Paperback:

9781107449268 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 26, 2014, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Children's literature, as we know it today, first came into existence in Britain in the eighteenth century.

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By Donald J. Gray (editor)

Hardcover:

9780263162066, titled "Lover by Deception" | Large print edition (Harlequin Mills & Boon, February 1, 2000), cover price $22.95 | also contains Lover by Deception

Paperback:

9780393932348 | 3 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 18, 2013), cover price $19.90

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Product Description: A Children’s Literature Association Book Award “Honor Book” During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world...read more

Hardcover:

9780821419076 | 1 edition (Ohio Univ Pr, April 13, 2010), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A Children’s Literature Association Book Award “Honor Book” During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world.

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Product Description: Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he traditionally receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Shakespeare and children's interests, and the Bard's works have been successfully adapted for children's use over several centuries...read more

Paperback:

9780786437818 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 30, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he traditionally receives little notice in studies of children's literature.

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Product Description: Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780773516250 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Analyzing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the 17th through the 19th century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature.

Paperback:

9780773520813 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature.

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Hardcover:

9780263162066 | Large print edition (Harlequin Mills & Boon, February 1, 2000), cover price $22.95 | also contains Alice in Wonderland

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A collection of critical essays about the famous British mathematician and author (view table of contents)
By Harold Bloom (editor)

Hardcover:

9780877546894 | Chelsea House Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays about the famous British mathematician and author

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Product Description: One of the most elusive and enigmatic writers of the Victorian era, Lewis Carroll has also proven one of the most durable writers of his age, consistently popular with children and adults alike. The Alice Companion opens a window into the mind of Carroll and his muse, Alice Liddell, as they created the mystical, turbulent, and clever world described in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780814742457 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: One of the most elusive and enigmatic writers of the Victorian era, Lewis Carroll has also proven one of the most durable writers of his age, consistently popular with children and adults alike.

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Product Description: Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this study examines the social, political and cultural forces that redefined childhood in Britain between 1860 and 1920 as well as the relationship of childhood to struggles over class, gender and race. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780312121433 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this study examines the social, political and cultural forces that redefined childhood in Britain between 1860 and 1920 as well as the relationship of childhood to struggles over class, gender and race.

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Product Description: An examination of how 40 years of opposition in friendship between these two major Victorian writers influenced their fantasy writing: Macdonald's early short stories and romances Phantastes and Lilith; and Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Sylvie and Bruno books.

Hardcover:

9780773490383 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: An examination of how 40 years of opposition in friendship between these two major Victorian writers influenced their fantasy writing: Macdonald's early short stories and romances Phantastes and Lilith; and Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Sylvie and Bruno books.

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Product Description: Summary Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds (Research in Text Theory)

Hardcover:

9783110138948 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, February 1, 1995, cover price $224.00 | About this edition: Summary Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds (Research in Text Theory)

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Product Description: Margaret Gatty was a mid-Victorian children's author, who also wrote Book of Emblems in 1872. This critical study examines the relationship of that book to 19th-century allegorical writings for children.

Hardcover:

9780404637088 | Ams Pr Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: Margaret Gatty was a mid-Victorian children's author, who also wrote Book of Emblems in 1872.

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Product Description: Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) was an early 19th-century writer of children's books, the details of whose lives and works are almost forgetten. Yet the problems of her life - left a young widow and unhappily remarried to an impoverished artist - gave her the materials and insights into life which she used in her books...read more

Hardcover:

9780859679176 | Scolar Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) was an early 19th-century writer of children's books, the details of whose lives and works are almost forgetten.

Product Description: Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams...read more

Hardcover:

9780805794304, titled "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: Nonsense, Sense, and Meaning" | Twayne Pub, December 1, 1991, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Two of the world's most popular children's books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), are also the favorites of adults, who find profound observations in their delightful "nonsense.

Paperback:

9780805785531 | Twayne Pub, December 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school.

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Product Description: Feminist criticism of nineteenth-century literature has traditionally repudiated the "angel in the house"ÐÐa domestic figure who was kept in her place, isolated from the world of power and patriarchy and any influence over it except through her children...read more

Hardcover:

9780813516813 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Feminist criticism of nineteenth-century literature has traditionally repudiated the "angel in the house"ÐÐa domestic figure who was kept in her place, isolated from the world of power and patriarchy and any influence over it except through her children.

Hardcover:

9781557420312 | Borgo Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9781557420305 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: 1990, hardcover. This title was published simultaneously in England and Detroit; the English publisher, Winchester, U.K., is St. Paul's Bibliographies. The American publisher is: Omnigraphics, Detroit. B&w illustrations throughout...read more

Hardcover:

9780906795897 | St Pauls Bibliographies, December 1, 1990, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: 1990, hardcover.

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Product Description: Honig's short, pleasantly written book is a consideration of the images of women--as mothers, spinsters, girls, and supernatural women--in 19th-and early 20th-century fantasy novels for children. . . . Honig sees fantasy as a means of freeing women from the Victorian social restraints--at first, imaginatively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780313261275 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1988, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Honig's short, pleasantly written book is a consideration of the images of women--as mothers, spinsters, girls, and supernatural women--in 19th-and early 20th-century fantasy novels for children.

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Charles Dickens's evolving use and mastery of using fairy tales, folklore, dreams, and myths in his writings is studied beginning with a historical background and ending with an exploration of 'Great Expectations.'

Hardcover:

9780333276976, titled "Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Novel-making" | Palgrave Macmillan, February 27, 1980, cover price $219.00
9780253183668 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1979, cover price $17.50 | also contains Intimate Partner Violence: Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse | About this edition: Charles Dickens's evolving use and mastery of using fairy tales, folklore, dreams, and myths in his writings is studied beginning with a historical background and ending with an exploration of 'Great Expectations.

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