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

Lewis Carroll

Nov 1999 · The Annotated Books Book 1 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I have this book physically and have been waiting for it to come digitally! This book is amazing, on each page there are notes that explain in detail bits and pieces about what your reading. For example in Through the Looking Glass Alice wonders what Looking Glass Milk must taste like and in the notes on the side of the page it went into great detail about how Alice shouldn't drink the Milk. Cause everything on the Looking Glass side is made up of Negative atoms and when a Positive Atom and a Negative Atom meet a huge explosion happens. This book is full of information like that. It really helps you understand Alice in Wonderland alot better. Totally recommend this!!

It dives deep into the mathematicians mind as "Lewis Carroll" the writer and shows who he truly is as a person of that time in history.

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About the author

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.

The many works of Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) include many humorous and political cartoons for Punch and other periodicals of the time, but he is best known for his illustrations of the original editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Class.

Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Lewis Carroll and his work. The author of more than a hundred books, he wrote the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and has been hailed by Douglas Hofstadter as "one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century."