Dr. Jessamyn R. Abel

I read a lot as a kid, but this book was the first one in which I paid attention to the annotations. I was surprised and fascinated by the layers of meaning that had previously been invisible to me, but were revealed by Martin Gardner’s mathematical commentary on this literary classic. In reading this book, I began to understand not only the joys of interpretation, but also the importance of expert guidance through texts that are more complicated than they might otherwise seem.