Alice in Wonderland

Offering accurate texts, stimulating contexts, and a generous selection of essays to help readers make their way through Wonderland and Lewis Carrolls 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 OxfordThis new edition includes a rich array of Lewis Carrolls marvelous writings, including personal letters and other important background material. A really splendid edition for teaching.Deborah Lutz, University of LouisvilleDonald Grays fourth edition of Alices 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 Dodgsons life, the backgrounds will enable students, scholars, and readers to place these beloved texts in their proper contexts. A crisp new edition.Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Queens UniversityThis Norton Critical Edition includes:The texts and original illustrations from the 1897 editions of Alices 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 Carrolls diaries, letters, and other source materials examining three distinct periods in Carrolls life and career.Fourteen critical interpretationseight new to the Fourth Editionranging from contemporary perspectives to modern assessments.A selected bibliography.