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'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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'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 howmercury 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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Alice1 was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Alice1 was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Everyone thinks they know about Alice in Wonderland - my own 'knowledge' comes from years of obsessive viewing of the superlative Disney feature as a child - but this terrific little book will prove you wrong. There are enough notes in here to keep even the most apathetic reader pacified; and the book is designed in such a way that the notes aid the reader, rather than becoming a constant pain. Presented alongside the text (reproduced with original Tenniel drawings of the characters) the notes are immediate and gripping, and whether you are studying this book or merely reading it for pleasure, i can thoroughly reccommend this edition. Well worth your money and your time.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This text is extremely useful. I bought it to aid my teaching of A Level Language and Literature spec B, ELLB2. Whilst the annotations are not strictly relevant to the course objectives they will certainly help to broaden students understanding of Carroll, his influences, his intended audience and the social context of the time.
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The only problem with this book is that the footnotes (which are placed in the margins of the book) are in very small print, which makes them hard to read. Everything else about the book is great - Carroll's Alice stories are as entertaining and readable now as they must have been over a hundred years ago. The notes help to reveal the complexity and subtlety underlying what on the surface appears to simply be a surreal meandering tale. I very much enjoyed revisiting a story that I appreciated as a child, to discover that it was extremely clever and well-constructed.
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Annotated Alice: Definative edition
Nice item, well-printed, much better and larger format than previous edition, had Pelican large format edition in 1970's, lent it to a boyfriend who thought Alice was 'childish... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Caroldoc
Annotated Alice - Definitive
This is a very interesting book: the whole of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, plus omitted parts and lots of wide-ranging notes - in fact, so wide-ranging, that... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Robert H. Banniser
Language is worth a thousand pounds a word. This is priceless!
For those of you who have discovered and love Lewis Carroll's masterworks `Alice in Wonderland' and `Alice through the looking glass (and what Alice found there)', filled with its... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. W. Swales
Annotated Alice
Excellent book. Clearly written and enjoyable to read. So good several friends have bought their own copies!
Published 22 months ago by Mr. W. Leigh Thomas
Great book, dreadful production
I bought this as a replacement for a copy which, like so many others, got lent to a friend and never got returned. I was very disappointed when it arrived. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Will
Absolutely fantastic
If you like Lewis Carroll, then you will absolutely adore "The Annotated Alice". Nearly everything - poem, nuance, riddle, illustration - is explained in detail, and the only... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by JOE IN DA JUNGLE
Genius, Of Course
I believe any comment on the stories themselves to be superfluous (they are world classics, childhood distilled and caught in amber forever) and it goes without saying that Martin... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2009 by Red King Dreaming
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My first impressions of this book were that it was like reading C.S. Lewis on cheap drugs. Read more
My first impressions of this book were that it was like reading C.S. Lewis on cheap drugs. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
Maybe I lack imagination...
A student chose this for our book club, and although I had some misgivings I said yes, because after all it's a classic. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2008 by María José García Ferrer
Drink me !
It's not so much a looking glass that is required here but a magnifying glass as it would help to read the tiny annotated text which accompanies the original story. Read more
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