Alice Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Through The Looking Glass – also known as Alice Through the Looking Glass – is the 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll.

The plot centres around a young girl named Alice who, instead of falling down a rabbit hole, this time steps through a mirror into the fantasy world that she can see beyond. Inside, she discovers that everything is reversed, an inverse reflection of reality. Perplexingly, running helps you stand still, walking away from something brings you towards it, chess pieces are alive, and nursery rhyme characters exist.
Along the way, she meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, the angry Red Queen, and many other characters that readers have come to know and love. The
books in this series are considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, playing with logic and giving the stories lasting popularity with young and old alike. Nothing is what it seems in the distorted reality of the looking glass!



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Genres: Classics

Paperback

Published April 14, 2026

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

[grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

sometimes ive believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast

[Tabby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this new adventure Alice went on and all the new characters we met. I love how it’s a game of chess in a way and how she meanders through different areas of the chessboard and what areas that makes it off the board. For some reason I’ve always loved the walrus and the carpenter story with the little oysters. I miss some of the old characters we met in the first book, but these characters were also great and added to her journey.

[Snt bltrn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolute literature

[Maia Dupuydauby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je me demande ce que Lewis Carroll a consommé avant d’écrire ça