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Eight Overlooked Characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books

Everyone loves the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, but what about these weird and wonderful creations?

By Kelly Robinson

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Books by Lewis Carroll at PG:
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CONSEILS D’UNE CHENILLE. A large caterpillar sits atop a wide mushroom smoking a hookah, while a small Alice peeks over the mushroom's edge. Grass, leaves, and smaller mushrooms surround the scene. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/images/x-page-60.jpg Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles by Lewis Carroll, Illustratated by John Tenniel, Translated by Henri Bué https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55456/pg55456-images.html

Eight Overlooked Characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books - Reactor

Kelly Robinson (Reactor)
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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013

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Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
Stuart Kelly (The Guardian)
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Died this day: 06/01/1966 (b. 03/24/1924)
Peter Bryan George was a Welsh author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove, winner of the 1965 Hugo for Best Dramatic Production.

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Art by Tomi Ungerer

This minimalist movie poster for Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," featuring cover art by Tomi Ungerer, is a stylized graphic illustration set against a plain white background. At the top, light blue silhouettes of B-52 bombers are arranged in a V-formation, radiating from the center toward the upper corners. The centered text begins with "Stanley Kubrick's" in a small black font, followed by "Peter Sellers • George C. Scott" in small red font. The main title, "Dr. Strangelove," is rendered in a large, bold, red, sans-serif font. Below it, the subtitle "Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" is stacked vertically in black, sans-serif font. Near the bottom, the phrase "the hot-line suspense comedy" appears in lowercase black, sans-serif font. In the lower foreground, two black silhouettes of men in suits are seen from the back, framing the bottom corners, both holding red telephone receivers to their ears. Between them, a portion of a globe is visible, featuring a graphic design of the U.S. flag merging into a red field with a white symbol. Fine black print at the bottom lists additional cast: "Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and introducing Tracy Reed." It credits the screenplay to "Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern," notes the film is "Based on the book 'Red Alert' by Peter George," and concludes with "Produced & Directed by Stanley Kubrick - Columbia Pictures Release."

British novelist

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#OTD in 1897. First publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Let's celebrate #DraculaDay!

The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. He probably found the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian.

Dracula at PG:
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Henry Irving is widely considered to have inspired Dracula. John Bernard Partridge - The Lyceum "Faust." By Joseph Hatton ... with illustrations from drawings by W. Telbin, Hawes Craven, W. H. Margetson, J. Bernard Partridge, and Helen H. Hatton Taken from "The Ilustrated London News" A black-and-white engraving of a theatrical figure in a sweeping dark cape, one arm thrust skyward, the other outstretched. He wears a pointed cap, tight hose, and an ornate belt, with a pallid, wide-eyed expression of dark exultation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula#/media/File:Mephistophles_on_the_Brocken_(cropped).jpg
Handwritten notes about the novel's characters. A handwritten manuscript page headed "Historiae Personae — Dracula" — Bram Stoker's early working notes listing characters for his novel, with many names cross…A handwritten manuscript page headed "Historiae Personae — Dracula" — Bram Stoker's early working notes listing characters for his novel, with many names crossed out and revised. Recognisable entries include Jonathan Harker (the lawyer's clerk), Wilhelmina Murray (called Mina), Lucy Westenra, Dr. Seward, and Count Dracula. Earlier rejected names are heavily struck through. Notes at the bottom mention a "secret room" and "dinner of 13," revealing the novel's plot still in formation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula#/media/File:Stoker_Dracula_Notes_Personal.jpg

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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