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Through the Looking-Glass

By Lewis Carroll
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Through the Looking-Glass follows Alice as she steps through a mirror into a fantastical world where she navigates a giant chessboard, encountering curious characters and surreal adventures. This sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland introduces a fresh narrative and a host of new wonders, culminating in Alice's quest to become a queen.
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Ideal for children and fans of classic fantasy literature seeking a whimsical and imaginative journey. Also suited to readers interested in Victorian literature and the enduring charm of Lewis Carroll's works.

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Originally published in 1871, Alice Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice's further adventures. A masterpiece of carefree nonsense for children which embodies layers of satire, mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes.

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The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to the immediately successful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), he created an entirely new fantasy world with a revised narrative structure.

The twelve-chapter format was retained, but Looking-Glass is significantly longer than Wonderland (224 compared to 192 pages in the first editions), and introduces a range of new characters, and is framed by Alice's progression across a chess board to become queen.

This new edition focuses solely on Through the Looking-Glass, with a penetrating and informative introduction by Zoe Jaques, including the most recent research and critical opinion on the subject matter.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198861508

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Illustration: 50 black and white illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Zoe Jaques

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 172g

Pages: 224

Collections

Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Classic Fiction Fantasy General Fiction Lewis Carroll Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Zoe Jaques is Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature in the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University and Dean of Homerton College. She has co-authored the 100,000-word Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History (Routledge, 2013) and written substantially about these books in her Children's Literature and the Posthuman (Routledge, 2015). She runs an AHRC network on children's literature in US and UK archives and is co-general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Children's Literature in three volumes (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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