Alice's Adventures In An Appalachian Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

2021-01-06 01:43:06

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... Read more
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 orthography, 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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.35 in
Print pages152
PublisherEvertype
Publication date October 10, 2012
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781782010104
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are ...

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