Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes. Set some 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. Though not quite as popular as Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking Glass or simply Through the Looking Glass) is an 1871 novelm by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote this wonderful tale under the pen-name of Lewis Carroll. It was written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of a fellow college professor at the University of Oxford in England and first published in 1871. The full name of the book is Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. It was a sequel to Carroll's original tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In this new story, Alice climbs through a mirror into a world where everything is reversed. It includes the memorable poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and introduces the unforgettable characters of Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published on 27 December 1871 by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 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.
