The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

352 pp. "The Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as well as the original illustrations by John Tenniel. It has extensive annotations explaining the contemporary references (including the Victorian poems that Carroll parodies), mathematical concepts, wordplay, and Victorian traditions (such as the snap-dragons) featured in the two books. The original book was first published in 1960, it has been reprinted several times and translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew."