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Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

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1871
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3 h 19 min · 10 parts

  1. 01 - Looking-Glass House

    18:24

  2. 02 - The Garden of Live Flowers

    20:09

  3. 03 - Looking-Glass Insects

    19:39

  4. 04 - Tweedledum and Tweedledee

    18:33

  5. 05 - Wool and Water

    16:26

  6. 06 - Humpty Dumpty

    28:57

  7. 07 - The Lion and the Unicorn

    18:31

  8. 08 - 'It's my own Invention'

    25:38

  9. 09 - Queen Alice and 10 - Shaking

    27:21

  10. 11 - Waking and 12 - Which Dreamed it?

    5:59

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In this sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice steps through a mirror into a topsy-turvy land organized like a giant chess game, where she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight, the imperious Red Queen, and the egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty, and encounters the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky.' Carroll fills the dreamlike journey with wordplay, logic puzzles, and wondrous invention as Alice advances across the board to become a queen. Even richer and stranger than its predecessor, Through the Looking-Glass is a masterpiece of literary nonsense that delights children and fascinates adults with its wit and hidden depths. It remains one of the most beloved and endlessly quoted books in all of children's literature.

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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn’t have had any hand in the mischief.

The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr—no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.

But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.

“Oh, you wicked little thing!” cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. “Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!” she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage—and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didn’t get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature.

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First published
1871
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
105
Language
English
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