https://www.spreaker.com/show/alice-in-blunderland-an-iridescent-dream_1Published in 1907, the book sends Alice into Blunderland, a strange society where familiar Wonderland-style logic is applied to civic institutions. Instead of simply encountering magical creatures and nonsense, Alice finds herself surrounded by municipal systems that are supposed to make life better but often create even more confusion.
Among the book’s comic inventions are an immovable trolley, a city-owned police force, an aromatic gas plant, a “Municipaphone,” a Department of Public Verse, and even the idea of municipal ownership of children. Through these exaggerated situations, John Kendrick Bangs pokes fun at political promises, inefficient administration, taxation, public services, and the tendency of reformers to make simple problems increasingly complicated.
Alice remains the sensible observer at the center of the madness. Her practical questions expose the contradictions of Blunderland, while characters such as the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the Duchess help transform political debate into comic fantasy.
The audiobook is especially suited to listeners who enjoy classic satire, humorous fantasy, political comedy, social criticism, literary parody, and imaginative nonsense.
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is more than a playful imitation of an Alice adventure. It is a clever early twentieth-century satire in which John Kendrick Bangs uses absurdity to question whether every promise of progress truly makes society better.
]]>enBooksCopyright Mentor New Yorkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6ef090faebb9e0405dfd7a9233ea7628.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/alice-in-blunderland-an-iridescent-dream_1Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:01:02 +0000Mentor New YorkMentor New Yorkfeeds@spreaker.comJohn Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot summary: J K Bangs has taken Alice from Lewis...Published in 1907, the book sends Alice into Blunderland, a strange society where familiar Wonderland-style logic is applied to civic institutions. Instead of simply encountering magical creatures and nonsense, Alice finds herself surrounded by municipal systems that are supposed to make life better but often create even more confusion.
Among the book’s comic inventions are an immovable trolley, a city-owned police force, an aromatic gas plant, a “Municipaphone,” a Department of Public Verse, and even the idea of municipal ownership of children. Through these exaggerated situations, John Kendrick Bangs pokes fun at political promises, inefficient administration, taxation, public services, and the tendency of reformers to make simple problems increasingly complicated.
Alice remains the sensible observer at the center of the madness. Her practical questions expose the contradictions of Blunderland, while characters such as the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the Duchess help transform political debate into comic fantasy.
The audiobook is especially suited to listeners who enjoy classic satire, humorous fantasy, political comedy, social criticism, literary parody, and imaginative nonsense.
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is more than a playful imitation of an Alice adventure. It is a clever early twentieth-century satire in which John Kendrick Bangs uses absurdity to question whether every promise of progress truly makes society better.
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