The Annotated Alice - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452009316 ISBN 13: 9780452009318

Publisher: Plume, 1974

Synopsis

This is the first and only paperbound edition of Lewis Carroll’s two masterpieces, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, that contains the full text, together with all of the original Tenniel illustrations in their correct places, and that adds to this a full annotation running concurrently with the text for the easiest possible reference.

Here, the result of many years of research by an expert, is a running commentary on all the jokes, games, puzzles, tricks, parodies, obscure references, and almost endless curiosities with which Carroll filled his writings.

With this information a modern reader can appreciate this great and subtle book in a way that would be impossible otherwise.
Many incidents from the moves in the chess game in Through the Looking Glass to a learned answer to the riddle “why is a raven like a writing desk,” to what was the original model of the Cheshire Cat, or a marvelous French version of the famous Jabberwocky poem-all are made the subject of a small but delightful and erudite essay that will delight the reader with new knowledge and understanding.

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About this title

About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photography, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.

The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452009316
• ISBN 13: 9780452009318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 345
• Editor: Gardner