Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there
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Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there
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eng
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fiction
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Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there
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dictionaries
Summary
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
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juvenile
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- Curiosity -- Juvenile literature
- Decision making -- Juvenile literature
- Fantasy -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- Portmanteau words -- Juvenile literature
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature
- Unicorns -- Juvenile literature
- Twins -- Juvenile literature
- Illusion (Philosophy) -- Juvenile literature
- Children + Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature
- Insects -- Juvenile literature
- Queens -- Juvenile literature
- Flowers -- Juvenile literature
- Imagination -- Juvenile literature
- Mirror-writing -- Specimens
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature
- Imaginary places -- Juvenile literature
- Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile literature
- Chess -- Juvenile literature
- Wit and humor, Juvenile -- Juvenile literature
- Animals -- Juvenile literature
- Dreams -- Juvenile literature
- Alice, (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Juvenile literature
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- Curiosity -- Juvenile literature
- Decision making -- Juvenile literature
- Fantasy -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- Portmanteau words -- Juvenile literature
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature
- Unicorns -- Juvenile literature
- Twins -- Juvenile literature
- Illusion (Philosophy) -- Juvenile literature
- Children + Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature
- Insects -- Juvenile literature
- Queens -- Juvenile literature
- Flowers -- Juvenile literature
- Imagination -- Juvenile literature
- Mirror-writing -- Specimens
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature
- Imaginary places -- Juvenile literature
- Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile literature
- Chess -- Juvenile literature
- Wit and humor, Juvenile -- Juvenile literature
- Animals -- Juvenile literature
- Dreams -- Juvenile literature
- Alice, (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Juvenile literature
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