“What Is It About Alice” Annual Holiday Lecture | SF Main Library

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Join them for the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center’s Annual Holiday Lecture “What is It about Alice?” Mark Burstein’s lecture will present a summary of his thoughts about Lewis Carroll and his immortal Alice books which were first published just over 150 years ago.

Exactly what is it that makes them the most quoted novels ever written with citations on the scale of Shakespeare and the Bible? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There have been translated into 194 languages, illustrated by hundreds of artists, and have been adapted into plays, musicals, movies, video games, and merchandise. What is it about Alice that makes these novels so celebrated, studied, and influential?

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