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Through the Looking-Glass
Contributor(s): Carroll, Lewis (Author)
ISBN: 0486408787     ISBN-13: 9780486408781
Publisher: Dover Publications
OUR PRICE:   $3.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 1999
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This handsome, inexpensive edition of one of juvenile literature's great classics features the original John Tenniel illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99035222
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.14" W x 8.36" (0.23 lbs) 128 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 66733
Reading Level: 7.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher Description:

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.
Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted Jabberwocky.
This handsome, inexpensive edition, featuring the original John Tenniel illustrations, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy.