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• The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to the Characters of the Marvel Universe

  Inc. Dorling Kindersley, Marvel Comics Group

  
  
   

• The Hidden Myths in Harry Potter: Spellbinding Map and Book of Secrets

  David Colbert

  
  
   

• The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

  Bev Vincent, Stephen King

  
  
   

• CliffsComplete Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Complete Text + Commentary + Glossary

  Carroll

  
  
   

• The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Cornell Paperbacks)

  Tsvetan Todorov

  
  
   

• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

  
  
   

• Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Editions)

  L. Carroll

  
  Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new". There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, together with a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser", seemingly without moral or sense.

  For more than 130 years, children have revelled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing and branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings, reproduced here, are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages)

  
   

• Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

  Jack Zipes

  
  
   

• Fantasy Fiction: An Introduction (Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres): An Introduction (Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres): An Introduction ... (Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres)

  Lucie Armitt

  
  
   

• Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

  
  
   

• SCIENCE OF DUNE, THE: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe (Science of Pop Culture)

  Kevin Grazier

  
  
   

• Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre

  Peter Coogan

  
  
   

• Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents)

  Dr Rosemary Jackson

  
  
   

• Superman Vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon (Cappella Books): How Fiendish Producers, ... American Icon (Cappella Books (Paperback))

  Jake Rossen

  
  
   

• Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction

  James E. Gunn

  
  
   

• The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

  Allan Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek

  
  
   

• Feminist Philosophy and Science: Utopias and Dystopias

  Judith A. Little

  
  
   

• The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

  Mary Gribbin, John Gribbin

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Superheroes

  Helen Rodiss, Paul Simpson, Michaela Bushell

  
  
   

• The Story of the X-Men: How It All Began (DK Readers: Level 4)

  Michael Teitelbaum