Through the Looking-Glass | Through the Looking-Glass

At a glance:

Author: Lewis Carroll
First Published: 1871
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy
Time of Work: Nineteenth century
Setting: The dreamworld of an imaginative child
Principal Characters: Alice, Dinah, The Black Kitten, The White Kitten, The White King, The Red King, Gnat, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion, The White Knight
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)

The Story:

Alice was sure the whole thing was not the white kitten’s fault. It must surely have been the fault of the black kitten. Dinah, the mother cat, who had been washing the white kitten’s face, certainly had had nothing to do with it. The mischievous black kitten, however, had been unwinding Alice’s yarn and in all ways acting naughty enough to cause the whole strange affair.

While the black kitten was curled up in Alice’s lap playing with the yarn, Alice told it to pretend that the two of them could go right through the mirror and into the looking-glass...

Through the Looking-Glass | Through the Looking-Glass

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