The Annotated Alice is a 1960 book by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll 's major tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as the original illustrations by John Tenniel . It has extensive annotations explaining the contemporary references (including the Victorian poems that Carroll parodies), mathematical concepts, word play , and Victorian traditions (such as the parlor game snap-dragons ) featured in the two books.
6-416: The original book was first published in 1960. It has been reprinted several times and translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German and Hebrew. In 1990, a sequel, More Annotated Alice , was published. This sequel does not contain the original side notes, and Tenniel's illustrations are replaced by those of Peter Newell . It also contains the "suppressed" chapter "The Wasp in
12-575: A Wig", which Carroll omitted from the text of Through the Looking-Glass on Tenniel's recommendation. In 1999, The Definitive Edition was published. It combines the notes from both works and features Tenniel's illustrations in improved quality. Gardner also compiled a companion volume, The Annotated Snark , dedicated to Carroll's classic nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark . In 2015, The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
18-477: A collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; The Hole Book (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and The Slant Book (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill. Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain , Stephen Crane , John Kendrick Bangs , and Lewis Carroll . He also created
24-656: A comic strip serial , The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead , which debuted in the New York Herald in 1905. He died in Little Neck, New York in 1924. Newell's great-granddaughter, Laura Lydecker, was also an artist and children's book illustrator. Lydecker illustrated editions of Wind in the Willows and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse . This profile of an American comics creator, writer, or artist
30-547: Was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books. A native of McDonough County, Illinois , Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly , Harper's Bazaar , Scribner's Magazine , The Saturday Evening Post , Judge , and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as Topsys and Turvys (1893),
36-632: Was published, combining the previous works of Gardner and expanded by Mark Burstein , president emeritus of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. It includes features such as more than 100 new or updated annotations, over 100 new illustrations by Salvador Dalí, Beatrix Potter, Ralph Steadman, and 42 other artists and illustrators (in addition to original art by Sir John Tenniel), and a filmography of every Alice-related film by Carroll scholar David Schaefer. Peter Newell Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924)
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