'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
ISBN: | 9780140289299 |
Publication date: | 25th October 2001 |
Author: | Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner |
Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 334 pages |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |