Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank, and of having nothing to do…when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. Alice did not think it so very strange to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and then hurried on, she started to wonder! Running after the strange fellow, she was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole. Down jumped Alice after it (never considering how in the world she was to get out again) and she tumbled into a curious world inhabited by the Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and more…

With his marvelous sense of the absurd, Lewis Carroll’s whimsical, fantastical tale delighted children and adults when it was first published in 1865 and has since become a treasured classic of literature.

Read By Cora Mc'Donald.

La vita non sempre segue il filo logico che vorremmo. A volte si aggroviglia, si annoda, si complica in modi che sembra impossibile dipanare. E proprio quando pensiamo di aver trovato il bandolo della matassa, ecco che tutto si confonde di nuovo. Allo stesso modo fanno le storie. Vent'anni dopo aver scaraventato Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carroll è tornato con una ricetta ancora più spiazzante: dieci racconti in cui si celano numerosi indovinelli. Come confessa l'autore stesso, ha inserito in ciascun «nodo», così titola ogni racconto, problemi aritmetici e geometrici «come nella marmellata della nostra infanzia venivano nascoste, con tanta astuzia ma poca efficacia, le medicine»..

This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and informative.