Through the Looking-Glass
The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and...
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The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486408781 (0486408787)
ASIN: 486408787
Publish date: May 14th 1999
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
19th Century,
Fiction
Hot on the tails of the rabid success of Alice in Wonderland comes the similar, but somewhat different, sequel. The absurdity of this volume is of the same scope as the original, but in many cases, being a sequel, it seems to lack some of the uniqueness of the original. One thing I noticed with rega...
I think i liked this one about as much as the last one. I didn't find Alice as annoying this time, which is nice. *Review written on December 17, 2014.*
Gerade noch spielt die kleine Alice mit ihrem Kätzchen, schon ist sie ins Land hinter den Spiegeln getaucht. Wenig erschüttert, legt sie sich im Schach mit der schwarzen und weißen Königin an, um nach einem erfolgreichen Spiel selbst Herrscherin zu werden.„Alice hinter den Spiegeln“ ist die Fortsetz...
Whereas I really liked [b:Alice in Wonderland|138516|Alice in Wonderland (Ladybird Classics)|Lewis Carroll|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389447680s/138516.jpg|40821941], I found this one a bit more predictable. It was a good book, and it was really funny at times, but all the reciting of poetry had...
Okay, so I didn’t enjoy Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but I had a free audio of Through the Looking Glassvoiced by Miriam Margolyes, and I thought, why not? Continue reading →
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