Through the Looking-Glass (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Fantasy
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Children, Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Other worlds, Dreams, Cats, Reality, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fantasy, Imagination, Comedy, Pretensions, Animals, Games, Chess or chess players, Mirrors or lenses
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
Analogous to a chess game, the fast-paced events of this fantasy carry Alice from the security of her own home through a dizzying sequence of moves until, at last, she is crowned queen. The looking-glass world in which she finds herself is one of opposites and contrasts, with no one quite what he or she seems.
Upon crawling through the mirror in her sitting room, Alice discovers the Red Queen and King and the White King and Queen in a state of agitation. Trying to discover the problem, she picks up a “looking-glass book,” which is written in mirror image, and finds the poem...
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