Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Large Print Edition


Book Description

Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (aka Alice in Wonderland). The book plays out in sort-of a mirror image of the first adventure, but uses a chess motif. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.




Alice Through the Looking-Glass


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In this sequel to "Alice in Wonderland", Alice goes through the mirror to find a strange world where curious adventures await her.







Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass


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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass was originally published in 1865/1872"--T.p. verso.




Alice in Wonderland


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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.







Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Illustrated) (1000 Copy Limited Edition)


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Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass includes all 84 original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. This edition is limited to 1,000 copies. Journey with Alice down the rabbit hole into a world of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme. Encounter characters like the grinning Cheshire Cat who can vanish into thin air, the cryptic Mad Hatter who speaks in riddles and the harrowing Queen of Hearts obsessed with the phrase "Off with their heads!" This is a land where rules have no boundaries, eating mushrooms will make you grow or shrink, croquet is played with flamingos and hedgehogs, and exorbitant trials are held for the theft of tarts. Amidst these absurdities, Alice will have to find her own way home. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is the sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as Jabberwocky, and The Walrus and the Carpenter, and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.










Through the Looking-Glass


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Through the Looking Glass is a sequel of sorts to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published seven years later. Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved in a strange game of chess. Soon, she is exploring the rest of the house, and meets a sequence of characters now familiar to most: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and the Walrus just to name a few.