Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781782010104)

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.

Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN-10: 1782010106
ISBN-13: 9781782010104
Publisher: Evertype
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2012
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d