| Clara in Blunderland: A Political Parody Based on Lewis Carroll's Wonderland Contributor(s): Lewis, Caroline (Author), Ransome, J. Stafford (Illustrator), Everson, Michael (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1904808492 ISBN-13: 9781904808497 Publisher: Evertype OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Humor | Topic - Politics - Humor | Form - Parodies |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| LCCN: 2010294288 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.35 lbs) 118 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Caroline Lewis is a pen-name, that of the team of Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple, who wrote both "Clara in Wonderland" and a sequel, "Lost in Wonderland". These two novels deal with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain's political leadership at the beginning of the twentieth century. -- But this book is not a stuffy study in early twentieth-century British politics -- it is a splendid parody, amusing as much for what it parodies as for its reflection of Lewis Carroll's originals, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Now, in 2010, more than a century from the book's first publication, "Clara in Blunderland" has to stand on its own in a way that it didn't in 1902. But it spans the century surprisingly well... Politics and politicians haven't changed much -- it seems -- in a century. That may be regrettable -- but at least Caroline Lewis can still make us laugh about it |