Illustrated with John Tenniel’s classic, beloved art-along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches-The Annotated Alice will be Martin Gardner’s most beautiful and enduring tribute to Lewis Carroll’s masterpieces yet. Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that finally combines the annotations of Gardner’s 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner’s encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars-for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll’s two classic stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.įorty years after this groundbreaking publication, W. 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.įor over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Lewis Carroll.
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