One summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends
from the Liddell family-the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice.
Dodgson often spun fairy tales on these boating trips to pass the
time, and on this particular afternoon the story was particularly
well received by Alice, who afterwards entreated him to write it
down for her. Dodgson recalled the pivotal moment thusly: "In a
desperate attempt to strike out some new line of fairy-lore, I had
sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole, to begin with, without
the least idea what was to happen afterwards." The tale, initially
titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground, became Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland, which Dodgson published in 1865 as Lewis Carroll. So
began the journey, now in its 150th year, of one of the most
beloved stories of all time. The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary
Deluxe Edition compiles over half a century of scholarship by
leading Carrollian experts to reveal the history and full depth of
the Alice books and their enigmatic creator. This volume brings
together Martin Gardner's legendary original 1960 publication, The
Annotated Alice; his follow-ups, More Annotated Alice and the
Definitive Edition; his continuing explication through the Knight
Letter magazine; and masterly additions and updates edited by Mark
Burstein, president emeritus of the Lewis Carroll Society of North
America. In these pages Lewis Carroll's mathematical riddles and
curious wordplay, ingeniously embedded throughout the Alice works,
are delightfully decoded and presented in the margins, along with
original correspondence, amusing anecdotal detours, and fanciful
illustrations by Salvador Dali, Beatrix Potter, Ralph Steadman, and
a host of other famous artists. Put simply, this anniversary
edition of The Annotated Alice is the most comprehensive collection
of Alice materials ever published in a single volume. May it serve
as a beautiful and enduring tribute to the charming, utterly
original "new line of fairy-lore" that Lewis Carroll first spun 150
years ago. The deluxe anniversary edition of The Annotated Alice
includes: A rare, never-before-published portrait of Francis Jane
Lutwidge, Lewis Carroll's mother Over 100 new or updated
annotations, collected since the publication of Martin Gardner's
Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice in 1999 More than 100 new
illustrations, in vibrant color, by Salvador Dali, Beatrix Potter,
Ralph Steadman, and 42 other artists and illustrators, in addition
to the original artwork by Sir John Tenniel A preface by Mark
Burstein, president emeritus of the Lewis Carroll Society of North
America, and all of Gardner's introductions to other editions A
filmography of every Alice-related film by Carroll scholar David
Schaefer
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