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Title: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Tenniel ISBN: 0-393-04847-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Research
Comment: This is a wonderful book full of meanings and delightful little side details about Charles Dodgson. This book has the answers to many of your questions about the both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; why did he do this, what did he mean by this... It also includes secret meanings, such as a name from one of his friends, or he did this because he had O.C.D. Annotated Alice is perfect for research papers (or reading for one's own pleasure) for it gives you some information on verses, his life...all those major details. For example, did you know that most if not all of his poems were a satire on another well-known nursery rhyme or poem. It is easy to tell in the following nursery rhyme what on what poem Carroll made a satire.
Twinkle twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you are at
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you are at
This seems simple enough, but do you know of what rhyme, "Beat Your Baby When He Sneezes" is a parody? The original poem was a song for babies to go to sleep. You will find all this info. and more. Cheers!...
Rating: 4
Summary: Master of Nonsense
Comment: The Annotated Alice provides a treasure chest of information on the two Alice books and on the man, Lewis Carroll who was responsible for their creation.
Martin Gardner provides annotations throughout the texts of both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Gardner's annotations help explain the inside jokes and mathematical and linguistic puzzles that fill the stories.
Reading the Alice books as an adult is quite a different experience than it was as a child. The books' complexity really stands out on a careful reading. In fact, what are generally regarded as children's stories can be amazingly frustrating to read due to the complexity of the language and the almost constant stream of puns that are sometimes lost on modern audiences. One must remember that the stories are told purely for fun. Unlike other Victorian children's literature one gets no morals, plot development, or character development here. Alice is a yound child who stays a young child throughout her adventures. She neither matures or learns anything from her adventures.
This is a very nice volume in its own right. It contains complete authoritative texts of both books and includes the supressed episode "The Wasp in the Wig." The original Tenniel illustrations are crisp and clear. The only difficulty is that the annotations are placed on the same page as the text in a small column that sometimes supplies more information than the text itself. The annotations themselves range from the definitional to the clearly eccentric. One can read all of them or only the ones that he or she is interested in.
On the whole this is an excellent volume well worth the effort to read if one has any interest in the world of nonsense literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally a "translation" of Alice for the masses
Comment: I remember my frustrations with reading "Alice" when I was young. Apparently it was an interesting story about animals and weird things and so on, but very quickly my reading stumbled onto nonsense verses and things so strange I don't know what to make of them. As a child I quickly lost interest and put down my book, that is until I encountered this wonderful annotated version by Martin Gardiner. Having enjoyed Gardiner's countless mathematical books and Scientific American columns, I was intrigued by this book.
This is a book that actually delivers what it promises. The large format of the book makes it easy to read and pleasing to the eye. The original drawings for the book by Tenniel are included, making it quite interesting. In the wide margins, Gardiner makes clear the countless curiosities, verses, puns, and mathematical oddities. Some of those things were meant to be understood only by a select group of people living in Oxford at the time Lewis Carroll wrote his work. Gardiner therefore draws upon a wealth of research by Alice fans all over the world to come to an understanding of all these oddities. The result is a much more enriching experience and much more pleasurable reading of the story.
At any rate, I don't take the Alice story as seriously as some of the fans do, but I was pleased I read this annotated edition once. I plan to find again my old childhood copy and re-read the story without annotation for enjoyment. Note that the annotated Alice went through various editions, this ("Definitive annotated Alice" being the third, most up-to-date and most complete, including the original illustrations by Tenniel and both sets of annotations in the original "Annotated Alice" and in the "More Annotated Alice". This is the edition to buy.
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Title: Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0517147815 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 30 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Annotated Wizard of Oz: A Centennial Edition by L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, W.W. Denslow ISBN: 0393049922 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 16 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Lewis CarrollÂs Games and Puzzles by Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling ISBN: 0486269221 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 27 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0486204928 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1958 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title:Alice in Wonderland ASIN: 6303212301 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 31 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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