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.
This handsome, inexpensive edition, featuring the original John Tenniel
illustrations, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile
literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable
fantasy.