9780486819242

Through the Looking-Glass

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780486819242

Paperback|9780486819242


Overview

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, a garden of talking flowers, and rude insects.
Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of characters who pelt her with riddles as well as humorous semantic quibbles, and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky." This handsome and inexpensive edition of the childhood classic features the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.

ISBN-13

9780486819242

ISBN-10

0486819248

Weight

0.25 Pounds

Dimensions

5.00 x 0.50 x 7.75 In

List Price

$4.99

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

128 pages

Publisher

Dover

Published On

2017-12-13



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