Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll

The Floating Press, Jan 1, 2009 - Fiction - 175 pages

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre "literary nonsense". Although its the sequel of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland it doesn't reference events of the first book; but some of its settings and themes do form a kind of mirror image of Wonderland. While playing with her kittens, Alice wonders what life would be like on the other side of the mirror. Much to her astonishment she passes through it into an alternate world and discovers looking-glass poetry and talking flowers and becomes a piece in a game of chess played by the Red Queen against the White Queen.

Contents

• Chapter 1 LookingGlass House: 4
• Chapter II The Garden of Live Flowers: 19
• Chapter III LookingGlass Insects: 35
• Chapter IV Tweedledum and Tweedledee: 50
• Chapter V Wool and Water: 69
• Chapter VI Humpty Dumpty: 87
• Chapter VII The Lion and the Unicorn: 107
• Chapter VIII Its My Own Invention: 122
• Chapter IX Queen Alice: 144
• Chapter X Shaking: 168
• Chapter XI Waking: 169
• Chapter XII Which Dreamed It?: 170

About the author

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Publisher: The Floating Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1877527580, 9781877527586
• Length: 175 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / General