Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

Name: Through the Looking-Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll

Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Language: English
First published: 1871
Reading time: 128 minutes
Chapters: 13 chapters

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On a snowy evening Alice is curled up in an armchair with her black kitten, wondering what the room on the other side of the mirror looks like, and then she climbs through it.

The looking-glass world is laid out like a giant chessboard, and Alice joins the game as a pawn who hopes to become a queen, meeting talking flowers, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty on the way. Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is full of word games, upside-down logic and famous nonsense poems such as "Jabberwocky".

Child of the pure unclouded brow\ And dreaming eyes of wonder!\ Though time be fleet, and I and thou\ Are half a life asunder,\ Thy loving smile will surely hail\ The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow

About this edition

Source
Project Gutenberg (eBook #12)
Text version
Project Gutenberg eBook #12 (updated 11 June 2026), downloaded 7 November 2026; the file calls itself "The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7". Text only: the illustration placeholders, title page, the chess-problem pages (list of pieces, chessboard picture and the list of moves), the contents list and the closing "The End" were not imported, and John Tenniel's pictures are not included. Carroll's prefatory poem (headed with its first line), the 12 chapters and the closing poem are unchanged.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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