Color, two-tone, and black-and-white photos and illustrations throughout. 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. Illustrated with John Tenniel’s classic and beloved art - along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches - The Annotated Alice is Gardner’s most beautiful and enduring tribute to Carroll’s masterpieces yet. 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.įorty 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. From its cover:įor over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. “The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition,” published in 1999 by W. “Classic Brainteasers.” But which book has been the most popular? I asked Martin Gardner’s son, Jim, whose answer surprised me: And “Aha! Insight.” Everyone has a copy of that. Seller? There’s “My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles,” which seems to be wedged onto every math bookshelf. Gardner has written, which has been his biggest Philosophy, religion, magic and - as many Numberplay readers are probably aware - recreational math puzzles. Gardner published more than 100 books in a variety of fields:

This week we continue to celebrate the life of the popular science and math writer Martin Gardner, who would have been 99 years old next week, on Oct.

The annotated alice