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A Tangled Tale

First published
1885
Pages
92

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  1. Preface. Knot I Excelsior

    4:31

  2. Knot II Eligible Apartments

    9:19

  3. Knot III Mad Mathesis

    6:59

  4. Knot IV The Dead Reckoning

    8:29

  5. Knot V Oughts and Crosses

    7:57

  6. Knot VI Her Radiancy

    9:30

  7. Knot VII Petty Cash

    8:23

  8. Knot VIII De Omnibus Rebus

    5:53

  9. Knot IX A Serpent with Corners

    8:47

  10. Knot X Chelsea Buns

    12:24

  11. Answers to Knot I

    11:05

  12. Answers to Knot II

    9:32

  13. Answers to Knot III

    9:48

  14. Answers to Knot IV

    7:44

  15. Answers to Knot V

    6:03

  16. Answers to Knot VI

    9:30

  17. Answers to Knot VII

    31:12

  18. Answers to Knot VIII

    4:17

  19. Answers to Knot IX

    9:42

  20. Answers to Knot X

    17:28

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About this book

Lewis Carroll wrote these ten linked stories, which he called Knots, for a Victorian magazine between 1880 and 1885. Each one hides a mathematical puzzle inside a comic little drama: knights bickering over how far they have walked, a stern aunt sparring with her quick-witted niece, muddled professors, and travelers who cannot quite work out their sums. Readers were invited to send in answers, and Carroll later printed the solutions with gentle, funny commentary on where people had gone wrong. The result is part brain-teaser, part parody of the fussy word problems of his day, all carried by the same nonsense logic that runs through Alice. You can download the full book free as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature.

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Book facts

First published
1885
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
92
Language
English
Genre
Humor
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Availle