John Kendrick Bangs 1 hr 14 min read

Alice tumbles into a land where the city owns everything, the trolleys, the gas plant, the police, even the children.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1907 satire borrows Carroll's dream-logic to lampoon 'municipal ownership,' sending its heroine through a Blunderland of civic absurdities and public verse departments. Witty Edwardian political comedy in fairy-tale clothing, sharp about the fads of its day. Read it for clever period satire that turns Wonderland into a send-up of big-government enthusiasm.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 14 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Albert Levering