
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS - And What Alice Found There - By Lewis Carroll - The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7
Contents
CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass House
CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers
CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects
CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
CHAPTER V. Wool and Water
CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty
CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn
CHAPTER VIII. “It’s my own Invention”
Alice slips through a looking‑glass into a world turned upside‑down, where every surface reflects a curious mirror of our own. The garden she finds is alive with talking flowers, and the sky is a chessboard where each square promises a new adventure. From the moment she steps onto the first white pawn, the landscape invites her to play a game of logic and imagination.
As she moves across the board, Alice meets a parade of unforgettable characters: the quarrelsome Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the pedantic Humpty Dumpty, and the regal yet puzzling Red and White Queens. Their conversations tumble over riddles, poems, and paradoxes, turning ordinary language into a playground of meaning. Each encounter nudges Alice closer to becoming a queen herself, while the rules of this mirrored realm keep shifting in delightful ways.
The narrative weaves whimsical wordplay with vivid, dream‑like scenes, creating a tale that feels both familiar and wonderfully strange. Listeners are drawn into a world where logic bends, and every turn offers a fresh surprise. It’s an enchanting journey that celebrates curiosity, wit, and the joy of seeing the ordinary from a new angle.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (160K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
David Widger
Release date
2008-06-25
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1832–1898
Best known for the Alice books, he brought together playful nonsense, sharp logic, and dreamlike fantasy in a way that still feels fresh. Behind the famous pen name was a reserved Oxford mathematician whose imagination reshaped children’s literature.
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