Lewis Carroll-Inspired Literary Fiction
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery!
Lewis Carroll’s works and life have inspired countless other authors since his time, and continue to do so today. In some cases, Carroll’s characters, or their thinly-veiled counterparts, make surprise appearances in novels. Sometimes Carroll (or Mr. Dodgson) makes an appearance himself! In others, no Carroll characters appear, but the themes, wordplay, and general atmosphere of surreal nonsense and logical illogic are unmistakably Carrollian. Almost 150 years after the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll remains one of the most influential authors in the entire world. Below are links to but a handful of Carroll-inspired works of fiction by other authors.
Please note: All links provided on this site are for reference only, and do not necessarily represent an endorsement of a given site or its contents. If you know of additional links appropriate for this or any of our other pages, please send the link to us! We are always looking for new, good-quality links relating to Lewis Carroll.
- Alexa Adams: Darcy in Wonderland
- Adam Gopnik: The King in the Window
- David Elliot: Snark Being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock … and its tragic aftermath
- Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Ellen Datlow: Mad Hatters and March Hares
- James Joyce: Finnegans Wake
- Jeff Noon: Automated Alice and the Vurt series
- Joyce Carol Oates: Wonderland
- Jun Hioki: Disney Twisted-Wonderland series
- Kate Atkinson: Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird
- Marissa Meyer: Heartless
- Mia Araujo: Afia in the Land of Wonders
- Michelle Rene: The Dodo Knight
- Nicolas Mahler: Alice in Sussex
- Philip José Farmer: the Riverworld series (Fantasy; a grown-up Alice Liddell is a character)
- Robert Gilmore: Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics
- Wikipedia Encyclopedia’s extensive list of Carroll-inspired works
