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The Annotated Alice: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" AND "Through the Looking Glass" (Paperback)

by Lewis Carroll (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrator), Martin Gardner (Introduction) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; The definitive new ed of revised ed edition (25 Oct 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 0140289291
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140289299
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,440 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #2 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > Gardner, John
    #5 in  Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Children's Literature Studies
    #6 in  Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators > C > Carroll, Lewis

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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
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A lovely twist to a great book, 1 April 2003
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alice: wealth of academic wit revealed., 29 Mar 1999
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This is Martin Gardner's classic edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking-Glass, annotated to explain, for the modern reader, the wealth of hidden references in the books: mathematics, chess, logic, Victorian politics, the original poems Carroll parodied, and much more.
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13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended, 28 Dec 2001
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This is good stuff. The notes (printed alongside the main text) make Lewis Carroll's weirdy stories a whole lot more approachable for curious grown-up modern readers.
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