Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles

Wakeling, Edward (Newly Compiled and Edited by). Illustrations by John Tenniel and others.

ISBN 10: 0486288617 / ISBN 13: 9780486288611

Published by Dover Publications Inc. New York, 1995. xiii, 79 pp., 1996

About this Item

Paperback, slight traces of use, else in (very) good condition. Text in English. With illustrations in black and white. Please see description or ask for photos.

Seller Inventory # 244190712

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. New York, 1995. xiii, 79 pp.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486288617
• ISBN 13: 9780486288611
• Binding: Soft cover

About this title

Synopsis

Best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll was also a noted mathematician and puzzlist. Toward the end of his life, he was working on a collection of puzzles, but died before it was completed. Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and mathematician, drew on that collection to prepare this volume of 42 delightfully diverting mind-benders: A Geometrical Paradox; Castle Croquet; A Sticky but Polished Riddle; Predicting the Total; Pounds, Shillings and Pence; Cats and Rats; Eligible Apartments; A Good Prospect; The Monkey and Weight Problem; Feeding the Cat; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Crossing the River; Who's Coming to Dinner?; Going to the Theatre; Two Tumblers; Spheres and Dodecahedrons; and 26 more. Enhanced with illustrations by John Tenniel (the original illustrator of Alice) and others, this volume will delight Lewis Carroll fans and puzzlists alike. Solutions are included.

About the Author

Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.