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Chapter companions for A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll.

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  1. Chapter 1

    Epigraph

    A brief Latin epigraph introduces the book, inviting the reader to accept it as it is.

  2. Chapter 2

    To My Pupil

    A poetic dedication praising a pupil's mastery of arithmetic and encouraging them to pursue lasting fame in mathematics, even surpassing Euclid.

  3. Chapter 3

    A Tangled Tale

    The chapter presents a series of mathematical puzzles and logical conundrums wrapped in whimsical narratives, featuring characters like Clara, Balbus, and Mad Mathesis as they engage in playful yet challenging problems involving trains, percentages, and displacement.

  4. Chapter 4

    Knot I: Excelsior

    Two knights descend a mountain at different speeds, discussing their pace and the time of day. The younger knight struggles with arithmetic as the elder challenges him to guess the time they stood on the peak, promising to reveal the total distance traveled between three and nine o'clock.

  5. Chapter 5

    Knot II: Eligible Apartments

    Hugh and Lambert search for lodgings in Little Mendip with their tutor Balbus, encountering a series of landladies offering single back rooms with cabbages. They also puzzle over a riddle from their father about a dinner party guest list involving complex family relationships.

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  1. Chapter 6Knot III: Mad Mathesis
  2. Chapter 7Knot IV: The Dead Reckoning
  3. Chapter 8Knot V: Oughts and Crosses
  4. Chapter 9Knot VI: Her Radiancy
  5. Chapter 10Knot VII: Petty Cash
  6. Chapter 11Knot VIII: De Omnibus Rebus
  7. Chapter 12Knot IX: A Serpent with Corners
  8. Chapter 13Knot X: Chelsea Buns
  9. Chapter 14Appendix
  10. Chapter 15Answers to Knot I
  11. Chapter 16Answers to Knot II
  12. Chapter 17§1: The Dinner Party
  13. Chapter 18§2: The Lodgings
  14. Chapter 19Answers to Knot III
  15. Chapter 20Answers to Knot IV
  16. Chapter 21Answers to Knot V
  17. Chapter 22Answers to Knot VI
  18. Chapter 23Answers to Knot VII
  19. Chapter 24Answers to Correspondents
  20. Chapter 25Answers to Knot VIII
  21. Chapter 26§1: The Pigs
  22. Chapter 27§2: The Grurmstipths
  23. Chapter 28Answers to Knot IX
  24. Chapter 29§1: The Buckets
  25. Chapter 30§2: Balbus’ Essay
  26. Chapter 31§3: The Garden
  27. Chapter 32Answers to Knot X
  28. Chapter 33§1: The Chelsea Pensioners
  29. Chapter 34§2: Change of Day
  30. Chapter 35§3: The Sons' Ages
  31. Chapter 36Endnotes
  32. Chapter 37List of Illustrations
A Tangled Tale — Chapters Explained