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Alice steps through a mirror and finds a world organized like a chess game
1871Fast paceLight
What it is about
Alice climbs through the mirror above her fireplace and enters a backward world. The land is laid out like a chessboard, and she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the White Queen. She hopes to reach the eighth square and become a queen herself.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who liked Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
What you will get
A classic of nonsense literature. It was first published in 1871.
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Classics · Wonderland · Wordplay · Nonsense
Length
208 pages · ≈ 6 h
More about this book
Characters
Alice and the strange inhabitants of the mirror world.
Setting
A looking-glass land modeled on a chess game.
What makes it different
The sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with famous poems like Jabberwocky.
Feel
Whimsical, clever and strange.
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