Alice's strange world image
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice2d.html, December 3, 2009
Alice in Wonderland
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker, Continuum Books, NY: 2004, page 88.
Voyage and Return
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker, Continuum Books, NY: 2004, page 87.
Orpheus
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades, December 4, 2009
Orpheus and Eurydice image
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/religionmyth/ig/Greek-Mythology/The-Greek-Hero-Orpheus.-_RX.htm, December 4, 2009
A Few Examples
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker, Continuum Books, NY: 2004, page 105-106.
Common in Folktales
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker, Continuum Books, NY: 2004, pages 88-89.