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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This handsome, inexpensive edition of one of juvenile literature's great classics features the original John Tenniel illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> 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.<br>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.<br>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> 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.<br>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> and its sequel, <i> Through the Looking Glass, </i> are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.</p>

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