Looking-Glass House: The Lost Manuscript of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll, Daniel Rover Singer (Adapted by), Jonathan David Dixon (Illustrations)

Was Lewis Carroll’s hand-drawn manuscript of Through the Looking-Glass destroyed, or did it just go underground for 150 years? Looking-Glass House is the faux rough-draft of Carroll’s 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Carroll’s own meticulous handwriting and it features more than thirty pen-and-ink illustrations that look suspiciously like Carroll’s charmingly amateurish drawings from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground . See how Carroll might have imagined the chess kings and queens, the Jabberwock monster and the Tweedle twins long before Tenniel drew them! Illustrations by Jonathan David Dixon. A must-have for all fans of Alice in Wonderland from Roverzone Press.

124 pages, Hardcover

Published November 21, 2016

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

[James Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is as if Lewis Carroll had hand-written an early draft of Alice Through the Looking Glass. The handwriting is clear and easy to read. The drawings are of the kind that Lewis Carroll himself might have done.

The problem I have is that this is not a rough-draft version of the final story. Alice's Adventures Underground, the original Alice in Wonderland story, had some major differences from the finished version. I think this book would have been better had the same thing be done; either leave out portions of the finished book or add some things that would have been extracted from the final book.

[Sam Ruffo · Rating 4 out of 5]

alice speaks like a 40 year old for being like 10