The Annotated Alice - The Definitive Edition
Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad.
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'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it is unsurpassed' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 'The indispensable guide to a classic of English literature...no one who has ever wondered about the meaning of 'Jabberwocky' should fail to include on their Christmas list' - Robert McCrum, Observer
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and English mathematician and writer. Born in Cheshire, England, in 1832, he graduated from and then taught at Christ Church College, Oxford.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.257
- : 01 September 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lewis Carroll
- : Paperback
- : 0112
- : John Tenniel
- : English
- : illustrations, references