Alice Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Overview

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Through The Looking Glass – also known as Alice Through the Looking Glass – is the 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. The plot centres around a young girl named Alice who, instead of falling down a rabbit hole, this time steps through a mirror into the fantasy world that she can see beyond. Inside, she discovers that everything is reversed, an inverse reflection of reality. Perplexingly, running helps you stand still, walking away from something brings you towards it, chess pieces are alive, and nursery rhyme characters exist. Along the way, she meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, the angry Red Queen, and many other characters that readers have come to know and love. The books in this series are considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, playing with logic and giving the stories lasting popularity with young and old alike. Nothing is what it seems in the distorted reality of the looking glass!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914602559
Publisher:	Chiltern Publishing
Publication date:	12/24/2024
Series:	Chiltern Classics
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 4.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years

About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Carroll was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass . He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon. Dodgson was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys born to Frances Jane Lutwidge, the wife of the Rev. Charles Dodgson. He was born in the old parsonage at Daresbury. His father was perpetual curate there from 1827 until 1843, when he became rector of Croft in Yorkshire—a post he held for the rest of his life though later he also became archdeacon of Richmond and a canon of Ripon cathedral.

Date of Birth:

January 27, 1832

Date of Death:

January 14, 1898

Place of Birth:

Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Place of Death:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Education:

Richmond School, Christ Church College, Oxford University, B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857

Website:

http://www.lewis-carroll-birthplace.org.uk/

Editorial Reviews

Excellent engineering and uneven writing make this full-cast production a mixed adventure. Lewis Carroll's second "Alice" novel is adapted without the advantage of narration, which gives the story immediacy and provides an excellent showcase for the performers but not without compromising Carroll's original story. There are some long stretches of story where there is no dialogue, and in order to describe Alice's experiences, the listener is forced to listen to long and awkward soliloquies by the main character. The scriptwriter made other choices that sometimes miss Carroll's whimsy while at other times taking the characters too far to the point of silliness. Children are likely to be entranced by ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, but adults will likely prefer literal readings of the book. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2010 - AudioFile