A TANGLED TALE

 

This collection of ten humorous stories was published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost later added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. ‘The tangled’ stories—knots as Carroll calls them—present mathematical problems to the reader. In a later issue, Carroll would provide the solution to a knot and discuss readers' answers. The stories combine an unusual blend of mathematics and humour, producing a genre altogether original.