Carroll-Through the Looking-Glass

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.