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"Curiouser
and curiouser!"
The following books will introduce you to Alice, who said
these words in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland.
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- Carroll, Lewis. Alice
in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition; John Tenniel,
Illus.). Norton, 1992.
- Includes William Empson's classic essay,
"The Child as Swain," which notes
sexual overtones of the story.
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice
in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass. Grosset
& Dunlap, 1946.
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (Arthur Rackham, Illus.).
Grammercy, 1995.
- Carroll, Lewis. The
Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland &
Through the Looking Glass (John Tenniel, Illus.;
Martin Gardner, Ed.). Bramhall House, 1960; Wings, 1998.
- Martin Gardner, longtime Mathematical Games
editor for Scientific American, sheds
amusing light on a host of arcane aspects of
Alice and Carroll, especially Carroll's puzzles
and wordplays.
- Carroll, Lewis. More
Annotated Alice (Peter Newell, Illus.; Martin
Gardner, Ed.). Random House, 1990.
- Newall's drawings of a lanky, brunette Alice
(modeled after his daughter) are unexpected but
charming nonetheless. More fascinating facts from
Gardner.
- Lovett, Charles C. Alice
on Stage. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1990.
- The ultimate guide to Alice adaptations for the
stage. Lovett catalogues 300 (in many languages),
starting with Henry Savile Clark's play (music by
Walter Slaughter), produced with Carroll's advice
in 1886.
- Longair, Malcolm. Alice
and the Space Telescope. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1989.
- Philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists have
been fond of devising new problems for Alice to
encounter with her ready mixture of wonder and
skepticism. This book, by the Astronomer Royal of
Scotland, is a particularly charming example of
the form.
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