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Alice in Wonderland: A Norton Critical Edition

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“Offering accurate texts, stimulating contexts, and a generous selection of essays to help readers make their way through Wonderland and Lewis Carroll’s other nonsense worlds, this remains the definitive critical edition of stories that remain as fresh and surprising now as they were when originally published more than 150 years ago.”

—Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, University of Oxford



“This new edition includes a rich array of Lewis Carroll’s marvelous writings, including personal letters and other important background material. A really splendid edition for teaching.”

—Deborah Lutz, University of Louisville



“Donald Gray’s fourth edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland collects a fresh assortment of critical essays that will shed new light on the Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark. Organized around different periods in Charles Dodgson’s life, the backgrounds will enable students, scholars, and readers to place these beloved texts in their proper contexts. A crisp new edition.”

—Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Queen’s University



This Norton Critical Edition



The texts and original illustrations from the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as well as the 1878 edition of The Hunting of the Snark.
Revised and updated footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials by Donald J. Gray.
Selections from Carroll’s diaries, letters, and other source materials examining three distinct periods in Carroll’s life and career.
Fourteen critical interpretations—eight new to the Fourth Edition—ranging from contemporary perspectives to modern assessments.
A selected bibliography.

367 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2024

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Lewis Carroll

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The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.

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