Through the Looking Glass
- Written By Lewis Caroll
Through the Looking Glass
- Lewis Caroll
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Through the Looking Glass
On a drowsy winter afternoon, Alice climbs onto the mantelpiece and steps into a world run by logic wholly reversed from our own. The countryside beyond the glass is laid out as a vast chessboard, and Alice is invited to join the game as a pawn with the promise of a crown if she can reach the eighth square.
Her journey brings her face to face with an unforgettable company: the imperious Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and a gentle, tumbling White Knight who may be the truest friend she finds. Overhead looms the shadow of the Jabberwock, and beneath it all runs a question Alice fears to discover the answer to: whether she is dreaming this world, or someone is dreaming her.
Published in 1871, Through the Looking-Glass stands with its celebrated predecessor Alice in Wonderland at the summit of English nonsense literature. The concepts laid out in this book have ingrained themselves so deeply into our world that we call on them without knowing where they come from.
Mathematicians, philosophers, and poets have puzzled over it for a century and a half, while children have simply loved it. Return to the story that has delighted young and old for over 150 years, now reprinted to capture the hearts of a new generation!
About the Author
- Lewis Caroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name “Lewis Carroll,” was born in 1832 in Cheshire, England, as the eldest son in a large clergyman’s family. A brilliant student, he took his degree at Christ Church, Oxford, and remained there for the rest of his working life as a lecturer in mathematics, publishing scholarly works on geometry, logic, and algebra under his own name.
Dodgson was also a gifted photographer, an inveterate deviser of puzzles and word games, and a natural entertainer of children. On a river outing in 1862, he improvised a story for the young daughters of the Christ Church dean, one of whom, Alice Liddell, asked him to write it down. The result, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, appeared in 1865 to immediate acclaim. Its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, followed in 1871.
Alongside the Alice books, Carroll produced the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and the “lesser” novel Sylvie and Bruno (1895). He never married and lived quietly at Oxford until his death in 1898 from pneumonia. His two children’s books have since been translated into more than 170 languages and have never once gone out of print.
