Description
Product ID: | 9780140289299 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Annotated Alice |
Subtitle: | The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
Authors: | Author: Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Children’s & teenage literature studies, Hindi |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. ''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 howmercury 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 |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-10-25 |