Alice in Wonderland (Third Edition)

by Lewis Carroll

Newly discovered letters by Lewis Carroll, an expanded selection of diary excerpts, and a wealth of new biographical materials are some of the features of this revised Norton Critical Edition.

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass along with the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark. Each text is fully annotated and the original illustrations are included.



An unusually rich “Backgrounds” section is arranged to correspond with three clearly defined periods in Lewis Carroll’s life. Letters and diary entries interwoven within each period emphasize the biographical dimension of Carroll’s writing. Readers gain an understanding of the author’s family and education, the evolution of the Alice books, and Carroll’s later years through his own words and through important scholarly work on his faith life and his relationships with women and with Alice Hargreaves and her family.



Reflecting the wealth of new scholarship on Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll published since the last edition, Donald Gray has chosen eleven new critical works while retaining five seminal works from the previous edition. Two early pieces—an essay by Charles Dickens and poem by Christina Rossetti—take a satirical look at children’s literature. The nine new recent essays are by James R. Kincaid, Marah Gubar, Robert M. Polemus, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Gilles Deleuze, Roger Taylor, Carol Mavor, Jean Gattégno, and Helena M. Pycior.



The Selected Bibliography has been updated and expanded.

Genres: Classics

400 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 18, 2013

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Marina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Proof I was never a kid at heart.

[Viviane Elbee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apparently I insisted on learning to read with the book Alice In Wonderland when I was younger. My mom said it was an awful experience that lasted for months and months because together we needed to look up every three words in a dictionary and nothing made any sense. Re-reading it as an adult, I notice it really wasn’t an easy book to learn to read with.

But, I think I must have loved the silly nonsensical side of the story, and I still find the strangeness of this story appealing.

This edition comes with extra commentary, and explanations. It’s interesting and makes me think of the story in a different way.

[Brooke · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not very nuanced lit major of me, but I found this honestly insufferable and I’m so glad we are no longer reading this in my class

[Ana T · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.99/5 stars

Love the creativity of the storyline and the characters.

[Duke Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wtf was Lewis Carroll on when he wrote this?