The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 - Fiction - 312 pages

The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.

For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars—for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Forty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner's 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Illustrated with John Tenniel's classic, beloved art—along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches—The Annotated Alice will be Gardner's most beautiful and enduring tribute to Carroll's masterpieces yet.

 

Contents

DOWN THE RABBITHOLE
11
THE POOL OF TEARS
20
A CAUCUSRACE AND A LONG TALE
29
THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL
37
ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
47
PIG AND PEPPER
57
A MAD TEAPARTY
69
THE QUEENS CROQUETGROUND
79
THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
156
LOOKINGGLASS INSECTS
168
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
180
WOOL AND WATER
194
HUMPTY DUMPTY
207
THE LION AND THE UNICORN
221
ITS MY OWN INVENTION
233
QUEEN ALICE
250

THE MOCK TURTLES STORY
90
THE LOBSTERQUADRILLE
100
WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
110
ALICES EVIDENCE
118
PREFACE TO THE 1897 EDITION
135
LOOKINGGLASS HOUSE
137
SHAKING
267
WAKING
268
WHICH DREAMED IT?
269
THE WASP IN A WIG
293
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Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born on January 27, 1832, and died on January 14, 1898. His most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; and The Hunting of the Snark. Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Sir John Tenniel, born in London in 1820 and died in 1914, was an English illustrator and cartoonist. Tenniel was primarily self-taught but he did become a student of the Royal Academy and in 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists. In 1850 he was invited to fill the position of joint cartoonist at Punch (a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002). Tenniel is most famous today for his illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass but he made numerous contributions to Punch in the late 19th century. Tenniel retired in January 1901 and was honored with a farewell banquet at which the Leader of the House of Commons, presided.

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