The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

by Martin Gardner (Editor), Lewis Carroll (Author), Lewis Carroll (Author), Martin Gardner (Editor), Lewis Carroll (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrator)

Synopsis

'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it is unsurpassed' - Jackie Wullschlager, "Financial Times". 'The indispensable guide to a classic of English literature...no one who has ever wondered about the meaning of 'Jabberwocky' should fail to include on their Christmas list' - Robert McCrum, "Observer".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: The definitive new ed of revised ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 25 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0140289291
ISBN 13: 9780140289299

Media Reviews
'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it is unsurpassed' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 'The indispensable guide to a classic of English literature...no one who has ever wondered about the meaning of 'Jabberwocky' should fail to include on their Christmas list' - Robert McCrum, Observer
Author Bio
Martin Gardner is the undisputed king of Carroll scholarship. He is also the author of many books on mathematical puzzles in Penguin. Now 87-years old, he lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.