為紀念《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》出版150週年，《The Annotated Alice》推出擴充珍藏版，收錄《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》與《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》的完整內容，並納入馬丁・賈德納自1960年起的註解與研究成果。本書補充超過100則新註解，搭配42位插畫家的新插圖，包括達利、碧雅翠絲・波特、拉爾夫・斯戴德曼等人的彩色作品，亦收錄卡洛母親珍稀肖像與歷來各版序言。由劉易斯・卡洛學會前會長馬克・伯斯坦編輯，這本版本呈現出故事背後的文化脈絡與語言趣味，適合對經典文學有興趣的讀者深入閱讀與收藏。A richly illustrated and expanded collector’s edition of Martin Gardner’sThe Annotated Alice, includingThrough the Looking-Glass, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandOne summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family—the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice. Dodgson often spun fairy tales on these boating trips to pass the time, and on this particular afternoon the story was particularly well received by Alice, who afterwards entreated him to write it down for her. Dodgson recalled the pivotal moment thusly: "In a desperate attempt to strike out some new line of fairy-lore, I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit
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First published in 1922, the Nobel Prize-winner's classic satirical novel follows middle-class businessman and upstanding citizen George Babbit on his sometimes hilarious quest for a greater purpose i
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