|
World Hotels - The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
|
List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $19.77
Your Save: $ 10.18 ( 34% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780393048476
ISBN: 0393048470
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 1999-11
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
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, 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 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.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Not the hoped for insider's explanation
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best
Comment: Bought this for my teen who says this is the new cool book. It is perfect so detailed and illustrated.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Alice in Wonderland
Comment: I ordered this as a gift for my 24 year old daughter. She is not easy to buy for. I didn't realize there were so many book options for Alice in Wonderland and wasn't sure if my daughter would like the annotated book. She was thrilled with the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Soso
Comment: My first impressions of this book were that it was like reading C.S. Lewis on cheap drugs. The events are complete non sequiturs and the changes in plot are worse.
It appears to be a spoiled child wandering in a world she does not understand, nor is willing to learn about - unlike Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe who seeks to understand the local customs and circumstances.
The book is very easy to read but it leaves distaste in my literary mouth. I know it is considered a classic but I just do not see it, and if I did not have to read it for school I would not have bothered to finish it.
(First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Review of The Annotated Alice
Comment: The book arrived promptly via standard shipping. I purchaed this book to replace a much earlier and well-read edition of The Annotated Alice. The dust cover and the book arrived in excellent condition. I am very pleased with the book and Amazon's service. As you may have guessed, I very much like children's literature and find that more often than not, the content is far more interesting to adults.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|