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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (Classic Reprint)

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (Classic Reprint) Review


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CHAPTER I OFF TO BLUNDERLAND IT V AS one of those dull, drab, depressing days when somehow or other it seemed as if there wasn't anything anywhere for anybody to do. It was raining outdoors, so that Alice could not amuse herself in the garden. or call upon her friend Little Lord FaWltleroy up the street; and downstairs her mother was giving a Bridge Party for the benefit of the ~1. O. Hot Tamale Company, which had lately fallen upon evil days. Alice's mother was a very charitably disposed person. and while slle loathed gambling in all its forms, was nevertheless willing for the sake of a good cause to forego her principles on alternate Thursdays, but she was very particular that her little daughter should be kept aloof from

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CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I Off to Biunderland 3; II The Immovable Trolley 19; III The Aromatic Gas Plant 37; IV The City-owned Police 56; V The lIunicipaphone 73; VI The Department of Public Verse 92; VII The Municipal Ownership of Children 108

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream. An economic parody based on Lewis Carroll's Wonderland

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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was born in Yonkers, New York, and is known for his work as an author, editor, and satirist. He worked for "Life", a number of "Harper's" periodicals, and "Puck", perhaps the foremost American humour magazine of its day. In "Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream"-first published in 1907-Bangs makes light of a range of economic issues familiar to his readers-these are quite topical and all-too familiar to today's reader as well. High taxes, corporate greed, bribery, institutional corruption, and govern­mental incompetence are amongst the themes of the book. Bangs' "Alice in Blunderland" relies more on absurdity than it does on nonsense, and some of the humour is indeed rather American. But Bangs' success is to make his reader smile wryly rather than laugh out loud-for his satire is very much on target.


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