Through the Looking-Glass
A book for shared reading across all generations - everyone will find their own interpretation and their own enchantment.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, is a continuation of the fairy tale about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. This time it takes us to a fantastic world that lies behind the mirror reflection of Alice's room. The girl once again finds herself in a dreamlike realm full of intriguing characters, mysterious places, and unexpected events. Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, embedded a game of chess within this story. Alice makes successive moves on a magical chessboard, ultimately becoming a queen. The tale that flowed from this extraordinary author's pen is simultaneously serious and humorous, fantastical and realistic, absurd and logical, full of tenderness and sarcasm. It's fascinating for both children and adults, as everyone can find their own path within it.
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, is a continuation of the fairy tale about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. This time it takes us to a fantastic world that lies behind the mirror reflection of Alice's room. The girl once again finds herself in a dreamlike realm full of intriguing characters, mysterious places, and unexpected events. Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, embedded a game of chess within this story. Alice makes successive moves on a magical chessboard, ultimately becoming a queen. The tale that flowed from this extraordinary author's pen is simultaneously serious and humorous, fantastical and realistic, absurd and logical, full of tenderness and sarcasm. It's fascinating for both children and adults, as everyone can find their own path within it.
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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