Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded - by David Day (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The full text of Lewis Carroll's novel with its many hidden meanings revealed by David Day"--Cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland </i>is also a revelatory work of scholarship.</b> <p/> <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his wonder child Alice Liddell. <br> In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way.<br> Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. <i>Wonderland, </i> he shows, is a veritable Who's Who of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age.<br> There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. </i>David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This is the kind of book that could keep list-makers for an alternate-universe <i>Buzzfeed</i> site busy forever. . . . Day's book proves . . . that Carroll's work, and its indefatigable young protagonist, is itself a rabbit hole of mystery waiting to be discovered. --<i>Quill & Quire <p/></i>For an exhaustive and entertaining account of how Lewis Carroll amused contemporaries in his favourite children's story, it may be impossible to top David Day's <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded</i>. <i>--The Vancouver Sun</i> <p/>It's no surprise to Lewis Carroll fans and scholars that <i>Wonderland</i> is a rich, multi-layered text. But Day's work engages and enlightens the casual reader in a way few scholarly works can, and the beautiful book makes for an essential keepsake for any <i>Alice</i> lover. --<i>New York Daily News</i> <p/>The book has never been out of print and each year brings new editions of--and books about--<i>Alice in Wonderland</i>. . . . Standouts this year include the beautifully illustrated and organized <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded</i>. --<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>We all think we know <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>, but David Day's seductively scholarly new look at the background to the tale reveals the rich and labyrinthine workings of its creator and the Victorian mindset that inspired it. His lively, thoroughly researched investigations expand and enlarge all our ideas about the <i>Alice</i> story, and give a whole new life to a much-loved classic. --Michael Palin <p/>I've been reading the<i> Alice</i> adventures since my childhood, and David Day's book is the one I would have wanted to write, had I his talent, wit and wisdom. <i>Decoded</i> is the perfect vade mecum for all travellers, new and seasoned, who venture into Alice's realms. In the words of the poet, 'O frabjous Day!' --Alberto Manguel, author of <i>A History of Reading <p/></i>David Day combines the expertise of an academic with the fervor of a true <i>Alice </i>enthusiast. . . . In a remarkable act of literary excavation, Day exposes the historical references, classical allusions and subtly disguised symbols that he thinks Carroll embedded in the tale of Wonderland as lessons for his protégé, Alice Liddell. The volume includes Carroll's novel in full, supplemented by Day's observations as he painstakingly traces the various themes--music and philosophy, mathematics and poetry--that run through Carroll's narrative, proving along the way that <i>Alice</i>, even as it celebrates the absurd, exhibits airtight logic. Richly illustrated, this is a book <i>Alice </i>addicts will find irresistible. --<i>BookPage <p/></i>David Day is the first author to demonstrate a complete understanding of the many mathematical ideas that lie below the surface in Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale. No other author, including Martin Gardner and the editors of the many editions of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> that have appeared in the past have undertaken this very important task. Day's interpretations are creative in both the literary and mathematical sense, and most importantly, are valid. --Francine Abeles, Professor Emerita, Department of Mathematics, Kean University, and editor of <i><i>The Mathematical Pamphlets of Charles Dodgson </i><br></i><br>Day has succeeded in making his thoroughly researched and persuasively argued book appealing also for lovers of <i>Alice </i>as well as for general readers interested in Victorian literature and society. --<i>Library Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>DAVID DAY has published 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction. He has been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. He has also been a magazine editor, a columnist for the <i>Daily Mail</i> and <i>Punch, </i> a scriptwriter for television, a playwright for theatre, and a dramaturge for the Royal Birmingham Ballet. His books have won numerous literary awards and been selected as Books of the Year by <i>Time</i> magazine, <i>New Scientist</i>, <i>Parents</i> magazine and <i>The Observer</i>. David Day's books--for both adults and children--have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into twenty languages.</p>
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