About this title: "The Annotated Alice" combines the notes of Gardner's 1960 edition with his 1990 update, "More Annotated Alice" (not published in the UK), as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's knowledge of the texts. Illustrated with John Tenniel's classic art - along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches - "The Annotated Alice" will be Martin Gardner's further tribute to Lewis Carroll's masterpieces.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NY, New American Library, 1974.
ISBN-13:9780452003064ISBN:0452003067
Description: Fourth Printing. 8vo., 345pp., soft cover. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel. With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. Large abrasion on front cover, pages tanned. ISBN: 0452003067. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dutton/Plume, New York, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780452003064ISBN:0452003067
Description: John Tenniel's Originals. Good+ No Jacket Issued. 5.25x8. Book shows yellowing/browning due to age. Book has a minor crease across the bottom right of the front cover. Otherwise, book is tight, square and unmarked. USPS Delivery Confirmation included. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, In
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. ---Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 7th Printing. 4to-over 9 3/4"-12" tall. 352 pages. Interior-there is light soiling on the text block, and there is a gift inscr. on the pre-title page. The beige boards and spine have light wear and foxing along part of the edging. The DJ has light wear/tear along part of the edging as well. -Publish Place: -Size: read more
Edition: None Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel. Very Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. BROWN CLOTH COVER WITH LIGHT SOILING. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Edition: Third
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel, John. Good in Poor jacket. Oversized Bright and crisp. The book is clean, but the last signature came in contact with something wet at some time. The jacket is a wreck. Looks okay in new mylar. Summary: The complete text and original illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, fully annotated. read more
Edition: Ninth Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Forum Books, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel, John. Good. No Jacket. Juvenile Clean and tight. Summary: The complete text and original illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, fully annotated. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good + 5.5 x 8 trade paperback. Black and yellow lettering on the white spine with an illustrated cover. Here, the result of many years of research by an expert, is a running commentary on all the jokes, games, puzzles, tricks, parodies, obscure references, and almost endless curiosities with which Carroll filled his writings. 345 pages. Soil and wear. Good + condition. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New American Library / Meridian Books, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780452003064ISBN:0452003067
Description: Tenniel, John. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Foxing to inside covers, edges. Lower front light corner crease. Lower rear short tear, repaired with clear tape inside. 345 [6] p. : 21 cm. B&W drawings. Sidebar commentary throughout. Bibliography. Reprint of the 1960 edition published by Clarkson N Potter Inc. read more
Edition: Annotated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780517029626ISBN:0517029626
Description: Tenniel, John, Sir. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. There is a some bubbling to the front end page. The pages are clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Reader copy. 1974 Meridian paperback-differnt cover-some wear to cover-creases to binding-minor staining to page edge-otherwise binding strong contents clean-a fine solid tight copy-enjoy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780452005785ISBN:0452005787
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter
Date Published: 1960
Description: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. With an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner. Fine and bright tan cloth boards with crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated throughout. A sharp copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780517029626ISBN:0517029626
Description: Tenniel, John. Very Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. AI3-DJ is mylar protected. DJ has some wrinkling on the top edge and spine, small tear on the back top left side, inscription on the bottom of the front inside flap, some stains, and normal shelf wear otherwise good. Book has wrinkling on the top spine, some stains on the right side page edges, some light soiling, discoloration, and normal shelf wear otherwise very good. The complete text and original illustrations in the only ... read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: John Tenniel. Good + No Jacket. 5.5"x8" This is a complete text of both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with the original John Tenniel illustrations in the only fully annotated paperbound edition as of 1974. 344 pages with bibliography. cover soil and edge wear. owner's name written front end page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000
Description: Good. W W Norton & Co [Published date: 2000]. Soft cover, 312 pp. Good/ NO dust jacket. Maroon and gold pictorial soft covers have light bumping to edges and creasing to corners with a bit of peeling to the corner tips. Light overall rubbing and scratching with a bit of the color rubbed off along the edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked with a bit of light creasing to edges and corners. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Wonderful b&w illustrations throughout. read more
Description: Tenniel, John. Near Fine. Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. NF. Softcover, 312 pp, wonderful illustrations by Tenniel, very light edgewear, otherwise a very nice, clean and crisp copy. read more
Description: 1966, 2nd printing., 2nd printing. (Trade paperback) About very good. Cover dirty, textblock slightly discolored. Includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Edited, with an introduction by Martin Gardner. (Fantasy) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780517029626ISBN:0517029626
Description: John Tenniel. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Tan 1/4 cloth, light brown paper covered boards. 352 pp., fully illus. (Tenniel). Modest binding lean, else virtually as issued. Dust jacket shows a few creases and modest shelf wear. "T" reprint edition. read more
"I had of course read this when I was a kid, but wanted to find it again and was very happy to find it free on Project Gutenberg. I'd forgotten how much of what was in the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland was really from Through the Looking Glass, which I remembered liking better, and I think I still do."
"Synopsis: The Annotated Alice consists of the books Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, both by Lewis Carroll. The full text of each book is included (as well as parts that were taken out) and there are annotative notes through the text of each chapter.
Alice in Wonderland: Alice dreams that she falls down a rabbit hole chasing a white rabbit and meets a bunch of interesting fantastical creatures. She plays croquet with the queen of hearts, has a baby turn into a pig in her arms and is continually changing sizes.
Through the Looking Glass: 6 months to the day after her dream about wonderland, she has another dream about climbing through the mirror into the house/parlor on the other side. She finds herself a pawn in a chess game and works her way across the board so that she can become a queen. Everyone she meets seems to recite poetry to her (where the annotations really help) including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Knight and Humpty Dumpty.
My Review: I've been wanting to read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for quite a while. I very much enjoyed reading them with the annotations because there is so much more to the stories than you would ever know or realize without them. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), was a shy, eccentric bachelor that taught mathematics at Oxford. Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) was a man obsessed with little girls, especially one Alice Liddell. While his obsession with young girls is a little creepy, it was amazing to read the cleverness of his stories."
"This edition has an interesting and informative introduction in which Martin Gardner refers to "the Bible and all other great works of fantasy," which amused me. The annotations to the text are often quite interesting if somewhat intrusive; I found it best to read all of them for a chapter before beginning to read the chapter itself, having them then in my knowledge base without having to be interrupted from the flow of the story. I enjoying all the punning. I had not realized that the songs were all parodies of existing songs of the time when Carroll wrote the book; the annotations contain the original lyrics. As I moved through the book, I found that many episodes are very familiar and in fact have become the stuff of everyday allusions in our culture, whereas other episodes have been, by me at least, long forgotten. The story is extremely picaresque, with occasional characters reappearing in subsequent episodes and some themes, eg changes in size, being more or less continuous. The original John Tenniel illustrations are priceless.
I enjoyed the extended annotations on the chess game and "Jabberwocky." The entire book is unbelievably clever and often very droll. How much of this can be appreciated by children? Only a fraction, to be sure. The book deserves to be reread in adulthood, perhaps even at different adult ages. Too often, I think, all that people associate with the work is the limited amount of material included in the Disney movie which, while entertaining in itself, is far less rich than the book (as is usually the case with movie adaptations of literature). Carroll had a vivid and engaging imagination, and we are the lucky recipients of its products.
Through the Looking Glass is much more deep and dense than the first book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, filled as it is with metalinguistic speculations and puzzles, logic and mathematics, all within the context of an extended gigantic chess game. Gardner, in his annotations, charmingly discusses not only the origins of much of the material but also the use of Carroll's material in subsequent literature.
What a treat it has been to reread this delightful work, especially in the annotated version. I think that this process of refreshing my knowledge of it will enable me to recognize allusions to it in my further reading."
"This is an excellent presentation of both the Alice books from Lewis Carroll, and the information in the citations amounts to a mound of annotation. I truly enjoyed the choice of artwork throughout the book, and most of the annotation. A few times the annotations were overly long and sounded more the words of a fan than an observer or commentator.
As for the stories themselves, they are excellent. Both are quite fun and stretch the mind a bit. Also, the addition of The Wasp and the Wig at the end of the book was quite interesting, especially after taking into consideration the pieces very recent discovery. It is quite a strange tale, the piece and the whole."
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