About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486408787

ISBN-139780486408781

eBay Product ID (ePID)54146

Product Key Features

Book TitleThrough the Looking-Glass

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Fantasy / General, Fantasy & Magic, General

Publication Year1999

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Fiction

AuthorLewis Carroll

Book SeriesDover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-035222

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240726

Grade FromSixth Grade

Dewey Decimal823/.8

SynopsisThe 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel., This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky." This handsome, inexpensive edition, featuring the original John Tenniel illustrations, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy., In a fantastic land where everything is reversed, Carroll's inquisitive heroine finds herself a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations.

LC Classification NumberPR4611.T5 1999