| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781598182217 | | Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203834728 | | Item#: RMQDJF | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6L x 0.5T | | Pages: 124 |
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| | | When you look at fine connections, it's hard to say exactly what relation "Alice in Wonderland" has to this book, "Through the Looking-Glass," Oh, it's plainly the same girl, though she seems older, here, and some characters (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee) appear in both. But she doesn't get there the same way, and doesn't refer to her adventures in Wonderland so much as once. Oh well: maybe it's all a dream and she can't remember the last one -- or maybe the magic through the Looking-Glass has hold of her, just as it has hold of Humpty Dumpty, or the Walrus and the Carpenter.
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The sequel to ALICE?S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND chronicles Alice?s dizzying trip through Wonderland as a chess piece in a mad-cap game that involves the now-famous Jabberwocky poem. After she passes through a mirror, Alice is mistaken for a flower, then finds herself racing to do the Red Queen?s bidding in a confusing series of chess moves. Along the way, all manner of rhymes and poems must be understood, and characters such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Lion and the Unicorn are encountered. The kittens belonging to the real Alice put on a brief appearance as well. Lewis Carroll's story, a wonderful blend of the fantastic and the hilariously real, is one of the great classics of children's literature.
| Author Bio| Lewis Carroll | | Charles Lutwidge Dodson (Lewis Carroll) was an Anglican deacon and a tutor in mathematics--his great love--at Oxford. All his life, he was fond of puzzles and word games, and he published several mathematical treatises. He was also an amateur photographer, specializing in portraits of children which, in the late 20th century, are considered somewhat ambiguous. His great works, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1865) and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1872) were written to amuse the daughters of a friend; Lewis Carroll himself, though he loved children, never produced any. Carroll's books are full of wonders, and are often quoted; perhaps the most famous quote is something the Red Queen says in THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" |
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