This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life * all the original illustrations A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten 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. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly — giving their names — was not always well received. (from wikipedia)
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The swashbuckling, computer-animated comedy—Disney Tangled—arrives in theaters Holiday 2010. This exciting chapter book retells the whole story from Rapunzel's point of view.
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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. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. Knot I, Excelsior. Two knights discuss the distance they will have travelled that day, uphill and downhill at different speeds. The older knight obscurely explains the mathematical problem. Carroll's Solution: As with most of the Knots, the solution includes: a simplified restatement of the problem, a method to arrive at the solution, the solution, a discussion of readers' solutions, then readers' grades. In his discussion, Carroll relates that one reader accuses the senior knight of untruthfulness (this is rebutted by Carroll, using the knight's tone). Another reader answers the problem by extending the story (this is quoted). The poem of two readers answering the problem is also quoted. Knot II, Eligible Apartments. Professor Balbus, named after a hero with "anecdotes whose vagueness in detail was more than compensated by their sensational brilliance", is given a problem by students. The number of guests for a party is described in puzzling terms. He in turn creates a mathematical problem for them: two answers are required of readers. Solution: The mathematical problem is solved with the aid of a diagram. Those employing "guesswork" are given partial credit. One reader suggests the genealogical problem can be solved by "intermarriages", to which Carroll replies, "Wind of the western sea, you have had a very narrow escape! Be thankful to appear in the Class-list at all!" Knot III, Mad Mathesis. Overbearing aunt Mad Mathesis bets her niece that she can select a train from London that will pass more trains than her niece's does. The niece loses, but thinks she has found a solution to win, a second time. Knot IV, The Dead Reckoning. The two knights of Knot I, in a modern guise, are party to a dispute about the weight of passengers' bags lost overboard from a ship. Knot V, Oughts and Crosses. The aunt and niece from Knot III are in an art museum. Trading snipes as before, the aunt evades her niece's logical problem: the niece's preceptress had told her girls "The more noise you make the less jam you will have, and vice versa." The niece wants to know if this means that if they are silent, they will have infinite jam. Instead, her aunt responds with her own logical problem.
The first book in a new middle grade series that features the adventures of Disney’s most loveable roguish heroes as kids! “You know the great thing about beginnings? It means we’re only getting started.” ? Flynnigan Rider and the Hunt for the Red Pearl Twelve- year-old Eugene Fitzherbert needs a plan. It’s not that he doesn’t love his time in the orphanage that raised him?Miss Clare and the boys are his family. As is his best friend, Arnie, with whom he’s often in cahoots, acting out passages from his favorite Flynnigan Rider books, or pretending they’re Lance Archer, the iconic thief who takes from the rich to give to the poor. But Eugene knows that most orphans his age set off to make their own way, and the orphanage already doesn’t have the means to support them all. Besides, he wants to see the world with Arnie, and maybe, just maybe find his parents someday. So when a traveling circus comes to the kingdom promising a life of adventure, brotherhood, and riches, Eugene jumps at the chance to join them. He even convinces Arnie to come too. But soon it becomes clear that there’s more to this ragtag crew than meets the eye, and they may have a dubious plot in the works. It’ll take new heroes?namely, Flynn Rider and Lance Strongbow, to save the day. Filled with adventure and fun, the Lost Legends series explores the untold origins of Disney’s most infamous rogue boys.
Unsettling Stories from Unheard VoicesThese stories traverse through the lives of ten ordinary individuals living in the USA and India (Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Varanasi and remote Arunachal Pradesh) but they all have one thing in common - their unexpected and convoluted reality. Sometimes regular life can be wicked!Hello Sunshine! In Minnesota, amidst the Covid19 pandemic, a neighborhood is scared about a different omen of death. What can be worse than the pandemic itself? Mirror Mirror on the wall A story unfolds in suburban Mumbai, leaving everyone perplexed. There is a schizophrenic husband with an illicit affair, and there is his crazy wife, who is supposedly hatching a plan to kill him. Who are they really? Only their mirror seems to know. Two truths and a lie In an affluent Kolkata neighborhood, an old man recites a story about the famous Kohinoor diamond, forcing the protagonist to question the present narrative. The Perfect Storm On a stormy night in remote Arunachal Pradesh, a lady in distress, a lone driver, and an escaped psychopath cross path momentarily. Who will survive this short encounter? And More.If you love reading books by Roald Dahl and Ruskin Bond, you will love these twisted tales.***"Intriguing collection with a surprising twist. Highly recommended for literature collections for the contemporary Indian writings."- Midwest Book Reviews"It is a short story reader's delight! All stories cover a range of emotions, experiences, and settings; giving one the sensation of seeing a great deal of the world and the people who inhabit it, without moving an inch. A great satisfying collection all in all!"- Ushasi Sen Basu - Author Kathputli & A Killer Amongst Us"Suduhita has beautifully penned the various facets of human life in urban societies through love, marriage, agony, jealousy, conspiracy, and human psychology."- Prof. Tamo Mibang, Former Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi Central University
