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The admiral's caravan

by Charles E. Carryl, Charles Charles Edward Carryl & Reginald Reginald Bathurst Birch (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile

"The Admiral's Caravan" by Charles E. Carryl is a novel written in 1891 and published in 1892. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books, it follows a young girl named Dorothy on a magical Christmas Eve adventure. When three wooden statues mysteriously come to life, Dorothy embarks on an extraordinary journey with her unlikely companions. This whimsical tale combines fantasy and wonder in the tradition of Victorian children's literature, offering readers a fantastical voyage into the imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Dreams”. Retained metadata contains “Dreams” in the subject metadata.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Tales”, and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

Open Library record

1909Houghton Mifflin Co.English—Public

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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2008-01-21Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL2338637W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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