The Magic of Lewis Carroll

This is a very different type of book as it does not spend all its pages on Carroll's biography or idiosyncrasies or anything like that. Instead it examines the various puzzles and games he devised, most of which deal with mathematics in one form of another.

The types of things that are covered include mazes, labyrinths, paradoxes, magic tricks, anagrams, chess, croquet, logic, origami and loads of other things. Explanations of them are given and there's a solution section towards the end of the book.

The reader can see just how creative he was, not just in his stories but in many other areas also. I haven't seen any other books on him like this. It can be quite complicated at times but it's still worth getting.

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