Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are wonderful books on their own. This Annotated version adds a depth that makes them enjoyable on many levels. Enclosed in the book are hundreds of annontations with the collected wisdom of many researchers during the past hundred years. The section on the poem “Jabberwocky” is worth the cover price alone. It is nice to get a perspective on Lewis Carroll (really Charles Dodgson), his relationship to the “real” Alice (Ms. Liddell) and life in Victorian England to show some of the true humor and wit of the Alice stories.

As a bonus the Definitive Edition includes “The Wasp in a Wig” which was a section of Through the Looking Glass that Carroll removed in an early edit and remained unpublished until just recently. This section gives a view of Carroll’s writing in more of a raw form.