Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) are two of the most celebrated works of literary nonsense and children’s fantasy ever written. Authored by the English mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, these timeless masterpieces transport readers into surreal, dreamlike wor…
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the brilliant, surreal sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. In this timeless classic, Alice steps through her drawing-room mirror into a bizarre, inverted reflection of reality governed by the rigid, logical rules of a giant chessboard.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations ? '