The Annotated Alice

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Plot

Where did the Cheshire Cat get its grin? Why was the Dormouse put in a teapot? What made the Mock Turtle cry? Martin Gardner's classic, hugely entertaining edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass explains all these curious puzzles, as well as the countless jokes, rhymes, word games and other delights in Lewis Carroll's extraordinary dreamworld. This definitive volume includes John Tenniel's wonderful Victorian illustrations, the notes from More Annotated Alice and many even newer discoveries.

'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