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Through the
Looking Glass
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Through the Looking Glass is a sequel of Lewis Carroll's (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)'Alice's adventures in Wonderland'. True to it's 'mirror' concept, Through the Looking Glass is seemingly a mirror to the first book's themes and settings. It employs devices such as mirrors, chess pieces, changes in time, direction and size. What I find remarkable about this work is its use of madeup words especially on the poem Jabberwocky. Aside from Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll also used other poems and songs in this book such as Humpty Dumpty, The Lion and The Unicorn, The Walrus and the Carpernter etc. Through the looking glass is a full length novel so I think that children who are ten and above are the ones who are mostly going to appreciate it. The Illustrations of John Tenniel are detailed and comic sketch like, which echoes how the book is a middle ground between children's picture books and novels. I remember reading this book when I was young, repeating it over and over agai; examining the pictures carefully. I can say that the text and the images worked well in transporting me into Lewis Carroll's world.
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book: children's fiction
Lewis Carroll
John Tenniel
Macmillan
1871
224 pp
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