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Through the Looking Glass (Paperback)
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|Short Description for Through the Looking GlassFeatures dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, which depict order turned upside-down - a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 30 June 1994
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780140620870 ISBN 10: 0140620877
- Sales rank: 21,460
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Full description for Through the Looking Glass
I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles, paradoxes and riddles, are poignant moments of elegiac nostalgia for lost childhood. Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds.
