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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN num: 9780393048476
ISBN number: 0393048470
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: November 17, 1999
Publishing house: W.W. Norton & Co.
Sale Popularity Level: 2651
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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, very first published in 1960, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is highly sought after by families and scholars alike--for it was Gardner who very first decoded the wordplay and the many mathematical riddles that lie 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 1960 edition with his 1990 update, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional new discoveries and updates drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Illustrated with John Tenniel's classic and 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. Celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday in the fall of 1999, the redoubtable Gardner has been called by Douglas Hofstadter 'one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century.' With The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, we have this remarkable scholar's crowning achievement.
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'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations!'
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. There may be some, like G.K. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an inch of its whimsical life. But as Martin Gardner points out in his introduction, so much of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is composed of private jokes and details of Victorian manners and mores that modern audiences are not likely to catch. Yes, Alice can be enjoyed on its own merits, but The Annotated Alice appeals to the nosy parker in all of us. Thus we learn, for example, that the source of the mouse's tale may have been Alfred Lord Tennyson who 'once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each.' And that, contrary to popular belief, the Mad Hatter character was not a parody of then Prime Minister Gladstone, but rather was based on an Oxford furniture dealer named Theophilus Carter.
Gardner's annotations run the gamut from the factual and historical to the speculative and are, in their own way, quite as fascinating as the text they refer to. Occasionally, he even comments on himself, as when he quotes a fellow annotator of Alice, James Kincaid: 'The historical context does not call for a gloss but the passage provides an opportunity to point out the ambivalence that may attend the central figure and her desire to grow up.' And then follows with a charming riposte: 'I thank Mr. Kincaid for supporting my own rambling.' There's a lot of information in the margins (indeed, the page is pretty evenly divided between Carroll's text and Gardner's), but the ramblings turn out to be well worth the time. So hand over your old copy of Lewis Carroll's classic to the kids--this Alice in Wonderland is intended entirely for adults. --Alix Wilber
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This is a nice book, with lots of interesting tidbits and information, nice illustrations and presentation, some good biography on Lewis Carroll, but if you're expecting to have every symbol and allusion explained, you won't find it here.
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It's okay. For such an expensive book, you would think some of the pen and ink drawings would be over-sized, blown-up, maybe even in color. The annotated notes are scholarly things found in any bio on Lewis Carroll. So I find this book is a useful reference for the scholar. I like some of the annotated notes for "Through The Looking Glass" - which give a little explanation of how the book us supposed to work like a chess board. This book costs too much!
Being someone who reads for pleasure, and buys books for my little niece, I wouldn't pass something like this on to her. For one thing, the book is MOOSE-ie! It's huge, heavy and difficult to manage, physically (unless you're a moose). Again, they missed the mark with the artwork, which doesn't stand out on the pages like it should.
The best editions of Alice I have found, actually, are by the Junior Illustrated Library. This edition is very affordable and has many beautiful prints of the drawings, done in full colour on single pages. Also, they make a standard size edition for collectors, and a smaller edition (about the size of a DVD box), nice for a little girl to carry with her backpack picnic lunch.
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Superb!!!
I bought it for my son to use in his high school class, and I was astounded at the quality of the binding and the workmanship of the entire book.
Completely annotated; well worth the money
D. Robinson
Savannah, GA
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I had hoped this annotated work would explain the historical facts being lampooned (e.g., Queen of Hearts and the Tarts)-- the insider's joke so to speak. That would have been so much more interesting. Failing this, the book is mildly entertaining in terms of the writing and publication processes.
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Bought this for my teen who says this is the new cool book. It is perfect so detailed and illustrated.
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