Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream
First edition cover of Alice in Blunderland
Author	John Kendrick Bangs
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy novel, Parody
Publisher	Doubleday, Page, & Co.
Publication date	1907
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xvi, 150
ISBN	978-1-904808-56-5

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1907 and published by Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

It is critical of economic issues such as taxation, corporate greed, and corruption. Instead of entering Wonderland, Alice finds herself in "Blunderland", which is also described as "Municipal Ownership Country".

The book features line drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Albert Levering.

In 1902, Bangs had written a book inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, called Rollo in Emblemland.

Plot

Alice travels to Blunderland where nothing is supposed to be, children live in the Municipal House of the Children and the Duchess and the City are their parents. We find in this novel all the familiar characters made famous by Alice in Wonderland: the dormouse, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and others.^[1]

2010 edition cover of Alice in Blunderland

Index

Off to Blunderland 3
The Immovable Trolley 19
The Aromatic Gas Plant 37
The City-owned Police 56
The Municipaphone 73
The Department of Public Verse 92
Ownership of Children 108

Bibliography

Bangs, John Kendrick (2010) Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream. Evertype. ISBN 978-1-904808-56-5

External links

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Google Books: Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream
David Pitts and Spanky in Ice Capades' "Alice in Blunderland"

Notes

↑ "Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream". http://www.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved February 19, 2013. External link in |publisher= (help)

Lewis Carroll's Alice

Creators

Authors	Lewis Carroll Anna Matlack Richards Saki Gilbert Adair Frank Beddor

Illustrators	John Tenniel Arthur Rackham Blanche McManus Millicent Sowerby Peter Newell Fanny Cory Bessie Pease Gutmann Charles Robinson Harry Rountree Harry Furniss Mabel Lucie Attwell Milo Winter Oliver Herford Uriel Birnbaum Jessie Willcox Smith Charles Folkard Mervyn Peake Alex Blum Leonard Weisgard Walt Disney Marjorie Torrey Tove Jansson Ralph Steadman Frank Bolle Charles Blackman Barry Moser Michael Hague Anthony Browne Willy Pogany Marie Laurencin Salvador Dalí Greg Hildebrandt Gavin O'Keefe Tony Ross Helen Oxenbury Lisbeth Zwerger Oleg Lipchenko Franciszka Themerson

Characters

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Alice The White Rabbit The Mouse The Dodo The Duck The Lory Eaglet Pat Bill the Lizard Puppy The Caterpillar The Duchess The Cheshire Cat The March Hare The Hatter The Dormouse The Queen of Hearts The King of Hearts The Knave of Hearts The Gryphon The Mock Turtle

Through the Looking-Glass	Alice The Red Queen The White Queen The Red King The White King The White Knight Tweedledum and Tweedledee The Sheep Humpty Dumpty Haigha Hatta The Lion and the Unicorn Bandersnatch Jubjub Bird

Related topics

Adaptations

Poems	"All in the golden afternoon..." "How Doth the Little Crocodile" "The Mouse's Tale" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" "You Are Old, Father William" "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster" "Jabberwocky" "The Walrus and the Carpenter" "Haddocks' Eyes" "They told me you had been to her..." "The Mock Turtle's Song" "The Hunting of the Snark"

Sequels	A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966) Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984) Automated Alice (1996) Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)

Retellings	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)

Parodies	The Westminster Alice (1902) Clara in Blunderland (1902) Lost in Blunderland (1903) John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)

Imitations	Mopsa the Fairy (1869) Davy and the Goblin (1884) The Admiral's Caravan (1891) Gladys in Grammarland (1896) A New Wonderland (1898) Rollo in Emblemland (1902) Justnowland (1912) Alice in Orchestralia (1925)

Reimagining	The New Alice in Wonderland (1966) Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Adventures in Wonderland (1991) The Looking Glass Wars (2006) Alice (2009) Malice in Wonderland (2009) Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

Film	1903 1910 1915 1931 1933 1949 1951 1966 1972 1976 1982 1985 1987 1988 (Czechoslovak) 1988 (Australian) 1995 1999

Stage	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ballet) Alice in Wonderland (musical) Alice in Wonderland (opera) Peter and Alice (2013 play) Wonder.land (musical)

Television	Fushigi no Kuni no Alice Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Literary	Alice in Murderland Alice in the Country of Hearts characters Miyuki-chan in Wonderland

Video games	Alice no Paint Adventure (1995) Alice in Wonderland (2000) American McGee's Alice (2000) Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alice: Madness Returns (2011) Kingdom Hearts

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