Lewis Carroll

Alice -- Victoria!

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: VICTORIAN AGE, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Queen Victoria, Llandudno Wales, Penmorfa, Alice in Wonderland, St. Tudno Hotel, The Real Alice in Wonderland Book, Alice Liddell, C. M. Rubin, Lewis Carroll, QUEEN of WELSH RESORTS, The GREAT ORME, Victorian-Extravaganza, Victoria, Books News

Welcome to the 2012 Victorian Extravaganza in Llandudno, the largest street entertainment event in Wales. My Dearest Cousin Anne, Have been invited...

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Alice -- Tea?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Alice in Wonderland Ltd., Alice in Wonderland, Inkstinctive Images, C. M. Rubin, St. Tudno Hotel, Llandudno Wales, Lewis Carroll, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Miss Alice Llandudno, 160th Birthday of Alice Liddell, Books News

I fell down a rabbit hole in search of a tea party for 1,000 children and a world record jam tart eating attempt. Down down down I went... until suddenly -- thump!

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Alice, Is This Cool?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Keith Wright, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Alice Liddell, Nicol Thompson, Alice's Adventures Underground, The Alice Trail, C. M. Rubin, The Rabbit Hole, Miss Alice Llandudno Wales, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Society, Johnny Depp, Daresbury Chronicle, Muriel Ratcliffe, Alice Day, Books News

Their big picture concept? A visual spectacle such as has never been seen before in any other attraction in the UK. So what might Alice Liddell have said about these creative upgrades to her favorite story in her summer vacation town?

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Alice -- Meet Alice

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts, Victoriana Extravaganza, C. M. Rubin, White Rabbit, Lewis Carroll, Llandudno Wales, Charles Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Mad Hatter, Alice Liddell, Alice in Wonderland Ltd, Miss Alice of Llandudno, Christ Church Oxford, Mayor of Llandudno, Johnny Depp, The Real Alice in Wonderland, Books News

"Magic, beauty, color, amusement, character, intrigue, questions, excitement, puzzlement, amazement, fear, suspense, fun and a happy ending" are the reasons why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is still a classic today.

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Kusama In Wonderland

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Lewis Carroll, Children's Books, Yayoi Kusama in Wonderland, Illustrations, Salvador Dali, Yayoi Kusama, Alice in Wonderland, Yayoi Kusama Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Slidepollajax, Penguin Books, Arts News

"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland." So begins Yayoi Kusama's visionary take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the iconic tale of a...

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Alice -- May 4, 2012

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Mad Hatter Tea Party, Victoriana Extravaganza, Mary Prickett, The Real Alice in Wonderland Book, St. Tudno Hotel, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sir William Blake Richmond, Ian Turner, Alice Liddell, Miss Alice Llandudno Nicol Thompson, Alice in Wonderland, C. M. Rubin, Dean Henry George Liddell, Martin Bland, Llandudno Wales, Wonderland, Prime Minister William Gladstone, Lewis Carroll Society, Penmorfa, Christ Church Oxford, Books News

Everybody' s got Alice fever in Alice town -- Llandudno, Wales -- but no one is as curious or as excited as me!

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"The Jungle Book"... Where Books Are Seen

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Moby Dick, Video, Natasha Bowdoin, Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass, Monya Rowe, Slidewide, Walt Whitman, Female Artists, The Jungle Book, Borges, New York Art, Arts News

Although we spend hours looking at books, we rarely acknowledge their physicality, especially if we're reading something on a Kindle. Natasha Bowdoin ...

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When Are We Old?

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Middle Age, The Bible, Social Security, Lewis Carroll, Pew Research Center, Shakespeare, Old Age, Old-Old, Fifty News

The advent of another birthday recently prompted me to ask myself: At what age does a person stop getting older and actually become old? In other words, when does old age begin?

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Alice in Italy

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: C. M. Rubin, Alice in Wonderland, Cristiana Collu, Lewis Carroll, Alice Nella Citta, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Museo D'arte Moderna E Contemporanea Di Trento E Rovereto, Mart Di Rovereto, Lewis Carroll Society, Marti Guixe, Alice Liddell, Sesquicentennial of Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Gianni Rodari, Aldo Busi, Sir John Everett Millais, The Real Alice in Wonderland Book, Alexander Munro, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Annelies Strba, Max Ernst, Paul Laffoley, Books News

Alice In Wonderland is the first exhibition to comprehensively focus on Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice" books and their enormous influence on the world of visual arts from the first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 to the present day.

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Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford

Pam Grout | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Oxford Experience, Blackwell's Bookshop, Oscar Wilde, Oxford University, Harry Potter, Lewis Carroll, Travel News

Oxford is a medieval dreamland, a time warp of sorts, where everything from winding cobblestone lanes to impeccably manicured gardens is ancient and historical.

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Alice -- In Wales?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.17.2012

When my daughter and I were creating our book, The Real Alice in Wonderland, about our relative Alice Liddell, we spent time researching Llandudno's long connection to Alice Liddell and her family.

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Alice in Wonderland Revisited

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Tate Liverpool - UK, Alice in Wonderland, Arts Exhibition, Lewis Carroll, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Arts News

A journey through 150 years of one of the most imaginative sources of inspiration ever: Alice in Wonderland.

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Alice

C. M. Rubin | Posted 02.04.2012

In the year 2143, will we be able to say Harry Potter lives, Harry Potter is global, or even that Harry Potter's enduring legacy continues to inspire all age groups? There is one book we can say that about today.

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How Will We Read? - The Book Given

C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Reading Tablets, Alice's Adventures Underground, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, How Will We Read?, E-Books, E-Readers, The Future of Books, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Book Apps, The Real Alice in Wonderland, Books News

On November 26, 1864, Lewis Carroll gave my relative, Alice Pleasance Liddell, a book he had written for her. He called the book Alice's Adventures Underground.

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14 Incredible Fictional Worlds You'd Most Want to Visit (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.01.2011

Some people dream of visiting India or Brazil -- other people have loftier, if not impossible, travel ambitions. With the summer travel season in ...

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Freedom: What Do July 4th and Alice in Wonderland Have in Common?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: July 4 1862, Lewis Carroll, Thirteen Colonies, Charles Dodgson, Alice in Wonderland Day, The Story Museum, Thomas Jefferson, Oxford, Alice Liddell, American Independence Day, Alice's Day, Lewis Carroll Centennial, Declaration of Independence, Alice in Wonderland, Freedom, United States of America, Columbia University, The Real Alice in Wonderland Book, Books News

July 4, 1862 is also known to many as Alice in Wonderland Day, the day that commemorates Lewis Carroll's first telling of the famous children's story to his young inspiration, Alice Liddell.

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PHOTOS: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use a Pseudonym

Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Fernando Pessoa, Pseudonyms. O. Henry, Nom De Plume, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Pauline Reage, Patricia Highsmith, Mark Twain, George Sand, Books News

It's true that George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte used male pen names so that their work would be taken seriously (and so they could publish at all).

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Lewis Carroll Turns an Albatross Into a Postage Stamp

Carolyn Vega | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Postage Stamps, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll Papers, Albatross, Sylvie and Bruno, Charles Dodgson, Harry Furniss, Lewis Carroll Letters, Caricaturist, New York News

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Book Covers, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Lord of the Flies, David Foster Wallace, Gone With the Wind, David Copperfield, All Quiet on the Western Front, Infinite Jest, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Books News

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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Alice In Medicareland: One Voucher Makes You Larger...

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Ryan Proposal, Strengthen Social Security, Cato Institute, Vouchers, Lewis Carroll, John Boehner, Social Security, Medicare, Tim Burton, Politifact, Town Halls, Comedy News

"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." Th...

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Stage Door: Wonderland

Fern Siegel | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Theater, Musical Theater, Broadway, Entertainment, Karen Mason, Frank Wildhorn, Lewis Carroll, Arts News

You know you're in trouble in Wonderland when the animated curtain is the most sophisticated part of the Broadway production.

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Books You Can Eat

masslive.com | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Cold Mountain, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Forbes Library, Edible Books, Lewis Carroll, Fundraisers, Libraries, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Books News

Charles Frazier's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Cold Mountain" is a fiddle made of fruitcake and pecans. At least that's how Marianne Moriarty of N...

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50 Books Every Child Should Read

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Children's Books, Lewis Carroll, Michael Morpurgo, Childrens Books, Charles Dickens, Michael Rosen, Philip Pullman, Jrr Tolkien, Books News

Education Secretary Michael Gove says that children aged 11 should be reading 50 books a year to improve literacy standards. We asked three of Brit...

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Gatsby, Winter Carnival, and Me

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lewis Carroll, 9/11, Coeducation, Carnival of the Century, West Side Story, Hanover Inn, Skis, Carnival Ball, Connecticut College, Won K. Chung, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wizard of Oz, Jay Gatsby, Gina Barreca, 1902 Room, Jabberwocky, Through the Looking Glass, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ski, Dartmouth College, Walter Wanger, Collis Commonground, Winter Carnival, Top of the Hop, Hollywood Prayer Network, President Jim Yong Kim, Skiing, Ann Sheridan, Where the Wild Things Are, Ski Jumping, Break a Leg, The Greatest Show on Earth, President Kim, Carnival Queen, Baker Library, Twin Towers, Dr. Seuss, Dartmouth, Through a Frosted Looking Glass, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Nick Carraway, Tampax, Avon, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Princeton, September 11th, Leagues Under the Sea, University of Connecticut, Chicago News

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."

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DVDs: The Tillman Story Is F-ing Good!

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Pat Tillman Story, Cartoons, Lewis Carroll, Hilary Swank, Vampires, Conviction, The Double Life of Veronique, Let the Right One In, Documentaries, Alice in Wonderland, Let Me In, Movies, Dvd, Animation, Kazuo Ishiguro, Entertainment News

THE TILLMAN STORY ($30.95 BluRay or $24.95 regular DVD; Sony) -- What makes a true patriot? Is it blind devotion? My country right or wrong? Or is t...

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