Through The Looking-Glass - Softcover

Lewis; Tenniel Carroll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405055685 ISBN 13: 9781405055680

Publisher: Pan MacMillan, 2006

Synopsis

Alice`s second set of adventures takes her into a world even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn`t as easy as she thinks: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky", have become as famous as the Alice stories themselves.

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From the Back Cover:

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.
Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky."

About the Author:

Philip Pullman is one of today’s best-loved and most successful writers for children, with over 20 books to his name. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy HIS DARK MATERIALS, for which he has enjoyed great acclaim and won prizes including the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. Amongst his other books are THE BROKEN BRIDGE (0 330 39797 4) and THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO (0 330 39796 6), both published in paperback by Young Picador.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405055685
• ISBN 13: 9781405055680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256