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A Tangled Tale

Lewis Carroll

First published 1885
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 152


10 stories: "Knot I" to "Knot X" and "Answers to Knot I", etc

The ten brief, humorous, mathematical stories --each evidently followed after some time by its Answer discussion-- were first published as an occasional series in {{a|Charlotte M. Yonge}}'s magazine The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church, from April 1880 to March 1885 (unillustrated).

The 1885 book contains revisions, a preface by Carroll, and illustrations by {{a|Arthur B. Frost}}.

Knots III, V, VII, and X feature "overbearing aunt Mad Mathesis" and her niece. --Wikipedia

  • Data from Project Gutenberg's scan.
  • The ToC lists the contents in the format "II. Eligible Apartments", but the individual stories are listed in the format "Knot II. Eligible Apartments", on two lines (hence the semi-colons in the content titles).
  • Interior art consists of 6 illustrations.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
A Tangled Tale Cover 1974 Odarkai Books / The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing Company Hardcover Collection Arthur B. Frost 67
A Tangled Tale 2009 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 29042