Through the looking glass

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By Lewis Carroll

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The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is the imaginative sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, plunging readers once again into a whimsical world of logic, nonsense, and fantasy. This time, Alice steps through a mirror into a topsy-turvy realm where everything is reversed, and the ordinary becomes delightfully strange.

Structured like a life-sized chess game, the story follows Alice as she navigates a curious land filled with peculiar characters such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Queen, the Red King, Humpty Dumpty, and talking flowers. As Alice moves from pawn to queen, she encounters philosophical riddles, inverted logic, and poetic absurdities, all told with Carroll's signature wit and wordplay.

While full of childlike wonder, Through the Looking-Glass also carries deeper themes of identity, transformation, and the passage of time. The mirror world reflects both the imagination of childhood and the subtle rules of adulthood, inviting readers of all ages to reconsider the boundaries between sense and nonsense, reality and illusion.

Originally published in 1871, this literary classic remains a cornerstone of English literature. With its unforgettable imagery and surreal charm, Through the Looking-Glass continues to captivate and inspire readers, artists, and thinkers over 150 years later.

Through the looking glass