Through the Looking-Glass: A Quick Read edition
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This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours
- Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes
"Through the Looking-Glass" is a novel by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871, and is the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The story follows Alice as she enters a fantastical world by climbing through a mirror. In this world, everything is reversed, including logic, and the characters are represented by chess pieces. Alice meets various characters, including the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the White Queen. The book makes use of chess motifs and imagery, with the story divided into square fields divided by brooks or streams. The book has been adapted into various films, TV shows, and plays. A missing scene involving a "wasp in a wig" was suppressed and later discovered in 1974. The book is considered a mirror image of its predecessor, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours
- Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes
"Through the Looking-Glass" is a novel by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871, and is the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The story follows Alice as she enters a fantastical world by climbing through a mirror. In this world, everything is reversed, including logic, and the characters are represented by chess pieces. Alice meets various characters, including the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the White Queen. The book makes use of chess motifs and imagery, with the story divided into square fields divided by brooks or streams. The book has been adapted into various films, TV shows, and plays. A missing scene involving a "wasp in a wig" was suppressed and later discovered in 1974. The book is considered a mirror image of its predecessor, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic.
Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and Anglican deacon (required for his academic fellowship at the time). Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, although Carroll always denied this.
An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle, which he called "Doublets", which was published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.
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