Through the Looking-Glass (Illustrated): The 1871 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations

by Lewis Carroll, Catherine Miles (introduction), John Tenniel (illustrator)

Experience Lewis Carroll's enchanting sequel exactly as Victorian readers first discovered it in 1871—complete, unabridged, and brought to life with John Tenniel's iconic original artwork that introduced Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Red Queen to the world.

Inside This Edition

50+ Original John Tenniel Illustrations – The complete first-edition artwork that first visualized Alice's mirror-world chess adventureComplete & Unabridged 1871 Text – Every word as Lewis Carroll originally wrote itReader-Friendly Layout – Perfect for continuing Alice's adventures with family read-alouds and young readersComprehension Quiz at the End – Test your knowledge of Alice's Looking-Glass journey after the story

About the Book

Six months after her adventures in Wonderland, Alice steps through a mirror into a backwards world where she becomes a pawn in a living chess game. She meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the forgetful White Queen who lives backwards in time, Humpty Dumpty who explains the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky," and the Red Queen who must run faster and faster just to stay in place. Carroll's brilliant wordplay and logic puzzles make this sequel equally enchanting as the original.

A beloved edition for families continuing Alice's adventures, collectors of Victorian literature, and anyone wanting to discover what Alice found on the other side of the mirror.

Genres: Fiction, Classics

114 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2024

About the author

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.

Reviews

[Emmalyn Nichols · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book to fill the time while I wait for the others to arrive. Remember reading this book in school and that it sparked my interest in reading. Definitely more chaotic and strange than Alice is Wonderland.

[jnxt · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars. i was so disappointed. this 2nd book didn't feel like a dream, like the 1st did. it felt like i was reading haphazardly arranged post-it notes of random ideas. sometimes the story flowed, but mostly it jolted you to another image (that you had to adjust your brain to) without transition.

i get it, it's alice's imagination, but this just felt like the scraps of the first book that they forced into a 2nd one. it could've used a good editing. some random ideas were fine, but others felt like it was thrown in just to be odd. and it left me going, "uhh o-kay."

i think disney and the 2 80's movies i watched as a kid did a great job at editing the two books into a fun adventure. they made this story exciting. yes, it's a classic and all, but if these two books came out today, i don't know that it would've been as revered. the ideas are fantastic, just the execution left much to be desired.

[N. Glass · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s hard to sequel a classic, but this delivers

I hadn’t read Through the Looking-Glass before and enjoyed this trip in the past with another classic. It is filled with so many mini timeless classics.

[Alyxandria Diaz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t care much for the first book or this one. Alice is kind of annoying with her ramblings to be honest. Reading this felt like one long run on sentence. One of the few times I’ll say the movie was better.

[Regina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it. Reading classic and youth books to add to my classroom bookshelf.

[Marion Granigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

charming reunion. I always preferred this one to Alice in Wonderland. More great poetry!!!

[Kristi Starmer · Rating 3 out of 5]

better

I enjoyed Through The Looking Glass more then I did Alice in Wonderful. Busy book with riddles of fun that are sometimes confusing.