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. When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. 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.įorty 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. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an. 23 books based on 14 votes: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Peter Pan by J.M. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and conversations, but a thorough gloss on the text as well.
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