Through the looking-glass: 1871

Synopsis

1871 (the first) edition, illustrated"through the looking-glass, and what alice found there" (1871) is a novel by lewis carroll, the sequel to "alice's adventures in wonderland" (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. "through the looking-glass" includes such celebrated verses as "jabberwocky" and "the walrus and the carpenter", and the episode involving tweedledum and tweedledee.