Alice in Puzzle-land
Title | Alice in Puzzle-land PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond M. Smullyan |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0486482006 |
Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings in puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. Challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions, plus 60 charming illustrations. "An ingenious book." — Boston Globe.
Alice in Puzzleland
Title | Alice in Puzzleland PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wolfrik Galland |
Publisher | Carlton Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781787392809 |
Work your way through 250 riddles and brainteasers with Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen and the rest of Wonderland's unforgettable cast of characters. Solve this curious and curiouser selection of 250 puzzles, all drawn from the characters, language, and locations in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. These perplexing and vexing conundrums, enigmas, and acrostics will test your powers of deduction, logic, and creativity. Featuring some of Carroll's own riddles and Sir John Tenniel's beloved original illustrations, this collection will take you straight down the rabbit hole and into a wondrous world with Alice. Bind-up of Lewis Carroll's Puzzles in Wonderland and Alice's Puzzles Through the Looking Glass.
Alice in Wonderland
Title | Alice in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | Seven Books |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2024-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 3988655856 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
A Red & Pleasant Land
Title | A Red & Pleasant Land PDF eBook |
Author | Lamentations of the Flame Princess |
Publisher | Lamentations of the Flame Princess |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2017-07 |
Genre | Fantasy games |
ISBN | 9789525904604 |
A terrible Red King wars with an awful Queen, and together they battle into being a rigid, wrong world... and this book has everything you need to run it. (And any other place in your first, second, third, fourth or fifth edition game that might require intrigue, hidden gardens, inside-out-rooms, scheming monarchs, puzzles or beasts, liquid floors, labyrinths, growing, shrinking, duelling, broken time, Mome Raths, blasphemy, croquet, explanations for where players who missed sessions were, or the rotting arcades and parlors of a palace that was once the size of a nation.)
Lewis Carroll's Puzzles in Wonderland
Title | Lewis Carroll's Puzzles in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wolfrik Galland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) |
ISBN | 9781780974408 |
Take a trip down the rabbit hole into a wondrous world of riddles and enigmas. In this fabulous collection you will discover a host of challenging puzzles, some will be familiar, while others are curiouser... and curiouser.
Sour Land
Title | Sour Land PDF eBook |
Author | William Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Chinese essays |
ISBN | 9780140363296 |
Alice in Numberland
Title | Alice in Numberland PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Mark |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780809499786 |
A collection of original stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities reflecting Alice's adventures in Numberland, where she finds mathematical challenges throughout the magical landscape.