Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll

Henry Altemus, 1897 - 209 pagina's

In this sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice climbs through a mirror in her room and enters a world similar to a chess board where she experiences many curious adventures with its fantastic inhabitants.

Inhoudsopgave

• Chapter Page I LookingGlass House: 15
• The Garden of Live Flowers: 35
• LookingGlass Insects: 54
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee: 72
• Wool and Water: 94
• HUMPTY DUMPTY: 114
• The Lion and the Unicorn: 134
• Its My Own Invention: 152
• Queen Alice: 177
• Shaking: 202
• Waking: 204
• Which Dreamed it?: 206

Populaire passages

Pagina 72 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships — and sealing-wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.

Pagina 73 - A loaf of bread,' the Walrus said, 'Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed— Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed.' 'But not on us!' the Oysters cried, Turning a little blue. 'After such kindness, that would be A dismal thing to do!' 'The night is fine,

Pagina 66 - I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum; "but it isn't so, nohow." "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Pagina 70 - O Oysters, come and walk with us!' The Walrus did beseech. 'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each.' The eldest Oyster looked at him, But never a word he said: The eldest Oyster winked his eye, And shook his heavy head Meaning to say he did not choose To leave the oyster-bed.

Pagina 165 - And now, if e'er by chance I put My fingers into glue, Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe, Or if I drop upon my toe A very heavy weight, I weep, for it reminds me so Of that old man I used to know — Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow, Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, Who seemed distracted with his woe, Who rocked his body to and fro, And muttered mumblingly and low, As if his mouth were full of...

Pagina 23 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves. And the mome raths outgrabe.

Pagina 42 - Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, " you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." " A slow sort of country ! " said the Queen " Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that...

Pagina 72 - Oysters followed them. And yet another four ; And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more — All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore.

Pagina 74 - It seems a shame,' the Walrus said, 'To play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!' The Carpenter said nothing but 'The butter's spread too thick!' 'I weep for you,' the Walrus said: 'I deeply sympathize.

Pagina 78 - Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real!

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There; Altemus' young people's library; Volume 1897 van Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, Sir John Tenniel
• Auteur: Lewis Carroll
• geïllustreerd door: Sir John Tenniel
• Editie: 61
• Uitgever: Henry Altemus, 1897
• Oorspronkelijk uit: de University of Michigan
• Gedigitaliseerd: 11 juli 2005
• Lengte: 209 pagina's