| Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland Contributor(s): Carroll, Lewis (Author), Sewell, Byron W. (Translator), Sewell, Victoria J. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1782010106 ISBN-13: 9781782010104 Publisher: Evertype OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.44 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" has been translated into over a hundred languages, from French to Japanese to Esperanto. In this translation into the rich dialect of the Appalachian Mountains, the translators have treated the story as a folktale, in order to create the sense that the reader is listening as an adult tells the story to a child. The story has been transported from Victorian English to post-Civil-War West Virginia, into an Appalachian setting appropriate for the dialect. The spelling used aims towards a literary ortho-graphy, rather than towards a phonemic respelling of the language entirely, and so it avoids unnecessary "eye-dialect" ("funkshun" instead of "function", and so forth). The sounds of the language used in "Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland" will certainly be familiar to most readers, but a short glossary has also been included. |