Article: Alice, Huck, Pinocchio, and the Blue Fairy: bodies real and imagined.

The three authors whose book-bodies I am about to violate were born within a decade of one another: the Italian Carlo Lorenzini in 1826, the Englishman Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832, and the American Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. The titles of their masterpieces all dangle the appeal of adventure, literally: The Adventures of Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. All used pen names: Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain. The books themselves were born within the same generation, between 1865 and 1883. Apart from being masterpieces, then, what the three books have in common is the era in which they ...

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