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Alice in Wonderland, The Original
Topic Started: Apr 14 2010, 05:14 PM (136 Views)
John Galt
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This type of stuff is one of the things that amazes me about the Internet.

At the British Library

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John (strange name for a chick) -

Next time you're in NYC, check out the Morgan Library. Its JP Morgan's library, augmented by various purchases made after he died.

Among his prize possessions was the manuscript of Dicken's A Christmas Carol, which he would read from to his kids every Christmas eve. He also owned 2 Gutenberg bibles, which are on permanent display.

The amount of extraordinarily rare books and manuscripts he owned was amazing. (including musical scores)
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One of my favorites is Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice.

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John Galt
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Al, I'm familiar with Gardner's column in Scientific American.

I'll have to take a look at Annotated Alice when I have a chance.

My future reading list keeps getting longer the more I hang around TNCR, and to make it worse, gardening season has kicked into high gear, giving me much less time to read!
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In my humble opinion, I think you should read Through the Looking Glass or What Alice Found There instead.

Pretty much everybody is familiar with the Alice in Wonderland story, and I'd say almost nobody these days actually reads the original. If you went with the other two Alice stories, you'd be reading a Lewis Carrol Alice book but you'd also have the benefit of being surprised by the story.
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Aqua Letifer
Apr 15 2010, 08:05 AM
In my humble opinion, I think you should read Through the Looking Glass or What Alice Found There instead.

Pretty much everybody is familiar with the Alice in Wonderland story, and I'd say almost nobody these days actually reads the original. If you went with the other two Alice stories, you'd be reading a Lewis Carrol Alice book but you'd also have the benefit of being surprised by the story.
Oh, great, AL, more to add to my list!

j/k I appreciate everyone's recommendations.

Thank goodness I have access to an excellent public library system in my area, or I'd be broke.
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John Galt
Apr 15 2010, 08:08 AM
Aqua Letifer
Apr 15 2010, 08:05 AM
In my humble opinion, I think you should read Through the Looking Glass or What Alice Found There instead.

Pretty much everybody is familiar with the Alice in Wonderland story, and I'd say almost nobody these days actually reads the original. If you went with the other two Alice stories, you'd be reading a Lewis Carrol Alice book but you'd also have the benefit of being surprised by the story.
Oh, great, AL, more to add to my list!

j/k I appreciate everyone's recommendations.

Thank goodness I have access to an excellent public library system in my area, or I'd be broke.
That's another thing!

half.com. Pretty much pay 5 to 6 bucks for any book out there. What I do is wait until I need to buy a handful, then order them all at once.

I'd do the library thing but I go back to books a whole lot and mark up the pages a lot.
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John Galt
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I do half.com sometimes too. Actually started a seller's account there to get rid of some books.

Have you tried Better World Books? I've had pretty good luck with them and it's sort of a neat idea: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
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John Galt
Apr 15 2010, 08:16 AM
I do half.com sometimes too. Actually started a seller's account there to get rid of some books.

Have you tried Better World Books? I've had pretty good luck with them and it's sort of a neat idea: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
I haven't! Thanks for the heads up. :smile: I have about five or six more books to track down for the summer so I'll look there, too.
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Dodgson also wrote a series of short stories (knots), each containing a mathematical problem to be solved, in an attempt to interest young people in mathematics. Now that's a creative teacher!
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John Galt
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Apr 15 2010, 08:43 AM
Dodgson also wrote a series of short stories (knots), each containing a mathematical problem to be solved, in an attempt to interest young people in mathematics. Now that's a creative teacher!
I wasn't familiar with Dodgson's knots. So the creative use of fiction to teach math is a longstanding technique.

On a related note, Mary Anna at WTF posted this just a few days ago on the topic as it relates to a project she is working on: http://well-temperedforum.groupee.net/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9130004433/m/741101625

Thought it might be of interest to the educators among us who might not hang out at WTF.



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