{"product_id":"9780930751258","title":"Alice in Acidland","description":"If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland.\u003cp\u003eWas Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of Charles Dodgson's England used solutions of mercury, which caused brain damage: thus \"mad as a hatter.\" Could the caterpillar really have been smoking something hallucinogenic in his waterpipe?\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dodgson may have passed Thomas DeQuincey on the streets of London -- after all -- this was generally the same era that DeQuincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1970, Alice in Acidland suggests that Alice's experiences - -and the curiouser and curiouser animals that she encounters -- echo the LSD trips of the hippie 1960s - -and could easily have been visualized by Thomas DeQuincey and the mad hatters of Lewis Carroll's time . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author suggests this all with tongue-firmly-in-cheek. We think.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893866864880,"sku":"9780930751258","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930751258","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}