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Davy and the Goblin 
First edition cover of Davy and the GoblinAuthor(s) Charles E. Carryl Country United States Language English Genre(s) Fantasy novel, Parody Publisher Houghton Mifflin Publication date 1885 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 164 ISBN NA Davy and the Goblin, or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a novel by Charles E. Carryl, written in 1884 and published by Houghton Mifflin of Boston and Frederick Warne of London in 1885. It one of the first "imitations" inspired by Lewis Carroll's two books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
The story is about eight-year-old Davy who reads Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland next to the fireplace, when he begins to get sleepy. A Goblin appears in the fire, munching coals, and takes Davy on a “believing voyage” where he meets a variety of characters from fantasy and literature.
The book features line drawings by Edmund Birckhead Bensell.
In 1891, Carryl wrote another book inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, called The Admiral's Caravan.
2011 edition cover of Davy and the Goblin
Bibliography
- Carryl, Charles Edward (2011) Davy and the Goblin. Evertype. ISBN 978-1-904808-65-7
Notes
Lewis Carroll's Alice Source texts - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking-Glass
- The Nursery "Alice"
- "The Hunting of the Snark"
Authors Illustrators - John Tenniel
- Arthur Rackham
- Blanche McManus
- Peter Newell
- Fanny Y. Cory
- Bessie Pease Gutmann
- Charles Robinson
- Harry Rountree
- Harry Furniss
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Milo Winter
- Oliver Herford
- Uriel Birnbaum
- Jessie Wilcox Smith
- Charles Folkard
- Mervyn Peake
- Alex Blum
- Leonard Weisgard
- Walt Disney
- Marjorie Torrey
- Tove Jansson
- Ralph Steadman
- Frank Bolle
- Charles Blackman
- Barry Moser
- Michael Hague
- Anthony Browne
- Willy Pogany
- Marie Laurencin
- Salvador Dali
- Greg Hildebrandt
- Gavin O'Keefe
- Tony Ross
- Angel Dominguez
- Helen Oxenbury
- Lisbeth Zwerger
- Oleg Lipchenko
- Franciszka Themerson
Characters Alice's Adventures
in WonderlandThrough the
Looking-Glass- Alice
- The Red Queen
- The White Queen
- The Red King
- The White King
- The White Knight
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- The Sheep
- Humpty Dumpty
- Haigha
- Hatta
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Bandersnatch
- Jubjub Bird
Poems - "All in the golden afternoon..."
- "How Doth the Little Crocodile"
- "The Mouse's Tale"
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat"
- "You Are Old, Father William"
- "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster"
- "Jabberwocky"
- "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
- "Haddocks' Eyes"
- "They told me you had been to her..."
- "The Mock Turtle's Song"
- "The Hunting of the Snark"
Related topics Adaptations Sequels- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895)
- New Adventures of Alice (1917) · Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1982)
- Automated Alice (1996)
- Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)
Retellings- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905)
- Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)
Parodies- The Westminster Alice (1902)
- Clara in Blunderland (1902)
- Lost in Blunderland (1903)
- John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904)
- Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)
Imitations- Mopsa the Fairy (1869)
- Davy and the Goblin (1884)
- The Admiral's Caravan (1891)
- Gladys in Grammarland (1896)
- A New Wonderland (1898)
- Rollo in Emblemland (1902)
- Justnowland (1912)
- Alice in Orchestralia (1925)
Reimagining- Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
- Adventures in Wonderland (1991)
- American McGee's Alice (2000)
- The Looking Glass Wars (2006)
- Alice (2009)
- Malice in Wonderland (2009)
- Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
Film
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Category:Alice in Wonderland
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