Description: When Charles Lutwidge Dodgson set out one afterÂnoon in July 1862 to invent a story about a girl disappearing down a rabbit hole, he could never have guessed that some 150 years later so many people would still be so entranced by the product of his imagination. Sunshine on the river, three little girls being rowed leisurely along and begging to hear a story, and the young clergyman at the oars turning to look over his shoulder at Alice at the helm, and saying: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..." To tackle a translation of the first book into the Caithness dialect of Scots to be part of this great project was a challenge. Catherine Byrne met it by imagining how her mother, reading the book aloud, would have sounded - "hearing my mother's voice in my head", as she put it in an e-mail to this writer. The result is engaging and amusing, and those familiar with the Caithness accent will recognize the achievement at once. Catherine Byrne's rendering of Alice into the dialect is very welcome. We hope that readers will enjoy it. Dodgson loved wordplay and we think that he would have been intrigued to hear his work in a dialect and accent he almost certainly never encountered. Welcome to "Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies". Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark. He was also a photographer.
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EAN: 9781782010609
UPC: 9781782010609
ISBN: 9781782010609
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Item Length: 21.6 cm
Book Title: Alice's Mishanters in E Land O Farlies: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Caithness Scots
Item Height: 216mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: Lewis Carroll
Format: Paperback
Language: Scots
Topic: Books
Publisher: Evertype
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Children & Young Adults, Fantasy
Item Weight: 181g
Number of Pages: 136 Pages