Blog this item

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Chris Riddell (Contributor)

(166)

| eBook | 9780141946702

Like Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Book Description

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.

3 Reviews

No Random Thoughts

I knew it.
When I read Tim Burton was making a movie out of "Alice in Wonderland", I knew he would mix "Through the looking glass" in it.
As I already wrote in the occasion of re-reading the first book about Alice, I knew this would upset me.
A surrealistic book is not a book that is NOT real. ... (continue)

I knew it.
When I read Tim Burton was making a movie out of "Alice in Wonderland", I knew he would mix "Through the looking glass" in it.
As I already wrote in the occasion of re-reading the first book about Alice, I knew this would upset me.
A surrealistic book is not a book that is NOT real. It is a book of its own. It's got its own plot. It's got its own characters. It's got its own why's, its own causes.
Each of Alice's books has its own story, its own magic, and its own destiny. So why, why, WHY in the world do moviemakers deem that Queens are interchangeable? That animals of the underworld can also be found behind a looking glass? Well, those animals were not only animals. They were also words. Words are written in certain pages by writers, not by moviemakers.
Well, these considerations have nothing to do with the book I'm reviewing. Or perhaps they do: they are the occasion to remember that "nonsense" books may be books that have the most meaning of all. They are the books where one plays with words. Where you discover the magic in a sentence. A thought that apparently makes no sense cannot be mingled with another: it is NOT a random thought.

Is this helpful?

RickyMos said on Mar 29, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Fabulous nonsense

Is this helpful?

Eva said on Mar 17, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

"Life, what is it but a dream?"
a crazy weird book....wonderful, good for everybody but you really might look through the looking glass to understand it

Is this helpful?

Pierfra said on Aug 23, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback