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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Paperback – 1973

by Lewis Carroll (Author), Ralph Steadman (Illustrator, Introduction)

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Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter; 1st edition (1973)
ISBN-10: 0517501368
ISBN-13: 978-0517501368
ASIN: B000NNLQ8Y
Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2,606 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,455,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #48365 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction

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338 of 349 people found the following review helpful

The name of this review is called "Haddocks' Eyes"

By "limespider" on February 22, 2001

Format: Hardcover

I finally, and seemingly permanently, misplaced the 40 year old copy of 'The Annotated Alice' (which I had pilfered from my mother's bookshelf) for the last time. I can't go more than a month or two without it so I rushed to buy a new copy...just weeks before the more beautifully bound 'Definitive Edition' was published. No matter, now I have two (perhaps even three if the original turns up).
My point is that this book contributed more to my understanding of logic and wordplay than several semesters of college philosophy classes. If you've read this far then I am probably preaching to the choir but 'Alice in Wonderland' can hardly be classified as a childrens' book, dispite Disney's attempts to do so. The concepts Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner bring to this tale cover such areas as set theory, meta-language, Aristotelian logic, topography, game theory, several pre-Socratic logic paradoxes, and even quantum physics. Yet John Tenniel's original illustrations remain as an welcome tether to the original publication.
Gardner does a wonderful job of bringing all the various aspects of these two stories together as he illuminates layer upon layer of meaning that might not be evident to an American audience or, for that matter, a 21st century one. My favorite gems are the French and German translations of The Jabberwocky.
This book ranks in my top five favorite books of all time.

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145 of 150 people found the following review helpful

The Looking Glass Shows Hidden Humor

By Ian on January 21, 2000

Format: Hardcover

I always enjoyed the twisted logic and unique sence of humor that I found in Lewis Carroll's Alice tales, the only problem I encountered was that some of the jokes required information that was no longer common knoledge. For example: when Alice continually misquoted the old English nursery rhymes I found myself wondering what the actual versions were, information that every child in Victorian England could have easily told me but that has since been lost to obscurity. After reading through this book I found the answers to all my original questions as well as many that I never considered asking. At first I thought that the commentary would strip the original work of its character and reduce it to a lifeless shadow. I found that the commentary did exactly the opposite, in a surreal way it made the book even more entertaining to read. The incredible detail of the commentary and the wide range of topics covered made the comments themselves seem part of the insane illogic that pervades the realms of wonderland and looking glass house. This does not mean that the coments themselves are insane or illogical, on the contrary they are all intresting and many offer new insights into the books, what makes the commentary so entertaining is how the story of "exactly 7 and one half" Alice is juxtaposed with comments on how the structure of the plot relates to physic and Robert Oppenheimer. Altogether I found the Annotated Alice to be a wonderful read and a gorgeous book which I recomend to anyone who enjoyed the original tales.

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125 of 131 people found the following review helpful

Master of Nonsense

By Bryan A. Pfleeger VINE VOICE on January 14, 2002

Format: Hardcover

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.

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207 of 222 people found the following review helpful

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

By Monika on October 26, 2004

Format: Mass Market Paperback

My first exposure to Lewis Carroll's classic children's story was through the 1951 Disney film adaptation "Alice in Wonderland," which I watched repeatedly as a child. The creative quality of the story never failed to fascinate me, and I kept going back despite my deep-rooted terror of the frightful Queen of Hearts, who always gave me nightmares! However, it was not until recently, as an adult, that I ever picked up the book/s upon which that film was based. In some ways I wish I had read it when I was younger, as the book certainly makes a great deal more sense than the movie does (as much sense as a story of this sort can, anyhow), but thankfully this book is unique in that it is just as enjoyable for adults as for children.

The story is actually spread across two books, here contained in a single volume. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was first published in 1865 and relates the events that take place after young Alice falls asleep during her lessons and dreams of following a white rabbit down a rabbit hole. Alice encounters all manner of strange creatures in her dream, and finds herself in all sorts of curious predicaments where common sense fails and the nonsensical comes to be expected. There is no central, concrete storyline, but rather Alice moves rapidly from one bizarre situation to the next before waking once more and relating the whole adventure to her sister.

The second of the two books, "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," appeared in 1871 and is very similar in nature to the first, though having a slightly different plot. Here Alice steps through an ordinary looking-glass one day, only to find herself in a world where, if you wish to get anywhere, you must walk in the opposite direction!Read more ›

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Everyone should read this book!

A new and wonderful adventure every time you read this story.

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A letdown after Alice's Adventures

The first Alice in Wonderland book was better. While both are "non-sensical fiction" this one felt far more forced in being cleverly full of nonsense while Alice's... Read more

Published 22 hours ago by K. McKinley

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It has the original illustrations! I really love reading this amazing book with my eight-year-old, we enjoy reading the rhymes out loud, especially the parts with made-up words. Read more

Published 1 day ago by Ambar

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Published 2 days ago by Ashley Nichole Ashburn

Two Stars

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A fun, short book

Wouldn't recommend reading it to your kids. A lot of the obstacles that Alice comes across don't really have an answer/lesson. Read more

Published 4 days ago by MadnessMaiden

Awesome read

I can honestly say it's my favorite book ever. Lewis Carroll, tweaker or not, is a literary genius.

Published 6 days ago by Caelam Kennedy

Five Stars

Classic!

Published 7 days ago by Mrs. Melissa R. Jacobs

A fun Classic

Have re-read this tale yet again, I am amazed how many different thing I noticed for the first time. It is a work of eternal charm and joy. It need not make sense, it just is. Read more

Published 9 days ago by Little John

Hmm

Stories about a drug induced 6 year old, tripping all over the place. Honestly though, worth reading... although they don't make much sense.

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