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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I learned a lot from this version, which is by Martin Gardner of mathematical puzzles fame. Alice benefits from commentary, I think, both because it is full of references to things familiar to children a century ago - many no longer familiar today - and also full of references to logic and puzzles, some of which are much easier to miss than the acrostic at the end.
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Oh, yes. I also read the annotated version and it became a better and more interesting book.
Reading an old book without proper knowledge seems to me to be revisionist history since you will interpret things according to current values.