Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies
Enriched edition. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Christmas-Tree Land, Dorothy and the Wizard in OzBy Lewis Carroll, Mary Louisa Molesworth, L. Frank Baum
Length13h 22m
About this audiobook
Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies traverses the whimsical landscapes of adventure and imagination where logic is an artifact of the ordinary world left behind. This anthology captures the spirit of nonsensical narrative that challenges conventional storytelling through its rich tapestry of absurdity and whimsy. With a collection ranging from talking animals to peculiar people, these stories explore boundaries with a vivid imagination that delights readers of all ages. Each piece captures a unique element of experiential fantasy, steering clear of linear plots and instead immersing readers in realms where meaning is as fluid as the prose. This collection brings together the creative minds of Lewis Carroll, Mary Louisa Molesworth, and L. Frank Baum, whose storied contributions to children's literature and nonsensical fiction boast a legacy of enchanting the young and old alike. Carroll's penchant for linguistic playfulness, Molesworth's charm in evoking a deep sense of wonder, and Baum's narrative magic intertwine to create a mosaic of storytelling that reflects their distinctive perspectives on fantasy. Together, these authors draw from their shared roots in the nonsensical and fantastical tradition, bridging literary movements between Victorian and early 20th-century literature. Readers venturing into this anthology will find themselves on a captivating journey through varied landscapes of imagination and wit. Whether a seasoned lover of fantastical tales or a curious newcomer, this collection invites exploration into the kaleidoscopic world of nonsense and fantasy. Offering educational richness and breadth of insight, this anthology fosters a vibrant dialogue among the different works, celebrating the conversational nature of human creativity unburdened by the mundane confines of reality.
In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:
- An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection.
- Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer.
- A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds.
- Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Fantasy
Length13 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 1)
5Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 2)
Show all chaptersShow less
6Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 3)
7Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 4)
8Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 5)
9Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies (pt. 6)
10Analysis
11Reflection
Alices Abenteuer im WunderlandLewis Carroll2h 46m4.2 (779.3K)$6 · $0.00
Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll3h 46m4.2 (331.6K)$9 · $0.00
The Greatest Bed-Time StoriesLewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Lee Hope, Andrew Lang, Maurice Maeterlinck, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgette Leblanc, Carl Sandburg, Evelyn Sharp, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. Nisbet Bain, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Howard R. Garis, Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston537h 14m4.3 (12)$0.99 · $0.00
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll4h 39m4.2 (563.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
Sylvie & Bruno (Vol.1&2)Lewis Carroll16h 43m3.6 (3.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
Alice im Wunderland (Mit Originalillustrationen)Lewis Carroll3h 22m4.2 (121.7K)$1 · $0.00
Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll6h 27m4.2 (3K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)Lewis Carroll46h 46m4.4 (3.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Alice in WonderlandLewis Carroll1h 38m4.0 (487.6K)$6 · $0.00
Alicia en el País de las MaravillasLewis Carroll3h 30m4.2 (522.6K)$3 · $0.00
Complete WorksLewis Carroll44h 55m4.5 (1.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Mathematical Works of Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll7h 30m4.3 (42)$1.99 · $0.00
Die phantastische Welt der Literatur: 90+ Romane, Märchen & Zauberhafte GeschichtenLewis Carroll, Selma Lagerlöf, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Gustav Weil, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Carlo Collodi, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Gerdt von Bassewitz, Dorothea Schlegel, Gottfried Keller, Heinrich Seidel, Lothar Meggendorfer, Rosalie Koch107h 39m$1 · $0.00
Alice in WonderlandLewis Carroll, Alice Gerstenberg1h 38m3.8 (129)$6 · $0.00
Alice in Wonderland (Collector's Edition) - With All the Original IllustrationsLewis Carroll5h 46m3.9 (4.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Alice au pays des merveillesLewis Carroll3h 15m4.2 (779K)$15 · $0.00
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1h 7m4.2 (570K)$10 · $0.00
The Greatest British Classics (Annotated)Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Kenneth Grahame, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Milton, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim578h 58m4.4 (11)$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Bed-Time StoriesLewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Lee Hope, Andrew Lang, Maurice Maeterlinck, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgette Leblanc, Carl Sandburg, Evelyn Sharp, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. Nisbet Bain, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Howard R. Garis, Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston537h 26m4.5 (19)$1.99 · $0.00
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS (Illustrated Edition)Lewis Carroll3h 46m4.2 (316.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
TWELFTH NIGHTWilliam Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 50m4.6 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust16h 8m4.5 (10.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Mis-Education of the NegroCarter Goodwin Woodson4h 32m4.5 (28.4K)$10 · $0.00
Lessons in TruthH. Emilie3h 50m4.6 (1.4K)$4.70 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery11h 1m4.5 (1.2M)$2.30 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book SetToshikazu Kawaguchi18h 55m4.5 (1.4K)$40 · $0.00
The Song of AchillesMadeline Miller11h 15m4.3 (2.3M) · 1005$29 · $0.00
The Left and the LuckyWilly Vlautin6h 40m4.4 (1.1K)$24 · $0.00
Hunt of the DragonJuliette Cross9h 46m4.4 (736)$20
Deadly GameChristine Feehan13h 20m4.3 (15.8K)$30
WildfireIlona Andrews12h 45m4.5 (62.9K)$33 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Treasure Island (Adventure Classic with Illustrations)Robert Louis Stevenson8h 50m4.5 (11.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Lola in the MirrorTrent Dalton13h 40m4.5 (43.9K)$33 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett13h 36m4.5 (163.8K)$33 · $0.00
The Leo Tolstoy CollectionLeo Tolstoy9h 1m4.5 (4.9K)$12 · $0.00
Sword and ShadowMichelle Sagara16h 51m4.5 (2.2K)$40 · $0.00
A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith14h 55m4.4 (577.6K)$33 · $0.00
Dark GuardianChristine Feehan12h 32m4.5 (26.3K)$33 · $0.00
The Neil Gaiman ReaderNeil Gaiman27h 3m4.5 (3.2K)$53 · $0.00
The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien10h 51m4.4 (4.9M)$12 · $0.00
Bad HabitAlana S. Portero5h 37m4.4 (52.3K)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll3h 16m4.2 (553.4K)$8 · $0.00
Rootabaga StoriesCarl Sandburg3h 23m4.2 (1.6K)$15
Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll3h 46m4.2 (331.6K)$9 · $0.00
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll3h4.5 (5.9K)$7.99 · $0.00
At the Back of the North WindGeorge MacDonald9h 26m4.1 (12.1K)$2.30 · $0.00
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll2h 36m4.2 (795.3K)$15 · $0.00
The Nursery "Alice"Lewis Carroll45m4.2 (431)$2.30 · $0.00
Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Dramatized)Lewis Carroll1h 24m4.2 (1.4K)$15
Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll3h 19m4.2 (185.3K)$2.30 · $0.00
Puck of Pook's Hill (A Fantasy Book) - Illustrated (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling7h 35m4.0 (5.3K)$3 · $0.00
Rootabaga StoriesCarl Sandburg3h 14m4.2 (2.1K)$7
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll2h 58m4.2 (551.4K)$2.30 · $0.00
Adventures of the Wishing ChairEnid Blyton6h 22m4.2 (9.8K)$1 · $0.00
Alice's Adventures UndergroundLewis Carroll1h 20m4.1 (2.8K)$3 · $0.00
Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll2h 56m4.0 (144.9K)$15
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereLeweis Carrol2h 59m4.2 (197.1K)Free
THE COMPLETE ALICE IN WONDERLAND ADVENTURES (With Original Illustrations)Lewis Carroll9h 20m4.4 (4.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak5m4.4 (1.1M)$7 · $0.00
Rootabaga PigeonsCarl Sandburg2h 44m4.1 (614)$1 · $0.00
The Missing PrinceG. E. Farrow3h 29m$2.30