Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Popular Classics) |
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Lewis Carroll
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Pages: 176 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140620877
Pub: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 1994-06-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 159648
Reader Reviews:
Excellent nonsense and nonsensical excellence (7/7 people found this helpful)
This book is deservedly a classic and very successful. Alice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to the much-loved Alice in Wonderland.
This time, Alice finds herself on a giant chess board in a backwards universe. She encounters flowers that talk, Humpty Dumpty and his nonsense, a loud snorer, Tweedledum and Tweedledee arguing, an knight inventing nonsensical items and very strange species of insects.
It's in this world that Alice is on her quest to the end of the chess board to become a queen. The book is packed with Poems, such as the classic The Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Knight's poem that has several names. Alice hears of the White Queen's logic: 'Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday but never jam today' and the way that she travels backwards (she starts screaming and then later she pricks her finger with a pin).
Overall, an excellent piece of nonsense with humour and poetry aside. I'm sure even adults would enjoy dwelling on the concepts Alice Through the Looking Glass describes.
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