A Tangled Tale: Lewis Carroll
- ISBN-10
- 1541226712
- ISBN-13
- 9781541226715
- Series
- A Tangled Tale
- Pages
- 66
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-12-20
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Lewis Carroll
Description
A Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. Describing why he was ending the series, Carroll writes to his readers that the Knots were "but a lame attempt." Others were more receptive: In 1888 Stuart Dodgson Collingwood wrote, "With some people, this is the most popular of all his books; it is certainly the most successful attempt he ever made to combine mathematics and humour." They have more recently been described as having "all the charm and wit of his better-known works."
