Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis

Kurze Beschreibung
Originally published in 1871, Alice Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice's further adventures. A masterpiece of carefree nonsense for children which embodies layers of satire, mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes.


Lange Beschreibung
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to the immediately successful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), he created an entirely new fantasy world with a revised narrative structure. The twelve-chapter format was retained, but Looking-Glass is significantly longer than Wonderland (224 compared to 192 pages in the first editions), and introduces a range of new characters, and is framed by Alice's progression across a chess board to become queen.

This new edition focuses solely on Through the Looking-Glass, with a penetrating and informative introduction by Zoe Jaques, including the most recent research and critical opinion on the subject matter.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Lewis Carrol


• THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS


• Explanatory Notes