Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
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( Sept. 30, 2018)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871[1]) (also known as “Alice through the Looking-Glass” or simply “through the Looking-Glass”) is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc) Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings