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Through The Looking Glass
By Lewis Carroll
In this, the second of the two Alice books, our long-haired,
solemn heroine discovers that the mirror over the mantel has become
"only a silvery mist," and she steps through it into a land of magical
contradictions, live flowers, and mangled poetry. She opens a book,
and . . . what is the matter with the writing? She holds the writing up
to the mirror, and — voila: "T'was brillig and the slithy toves did
gyre and gimble in the wabe . . ." — we have the splendid nonsense
of The Jabberwocky! Come, slip through the mirror with Alice
and enter her splendid world of Wonderland!
About Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898) Englishman Charles Dodson thought of himself as a scholar
and teacher of mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, rather than as an
author. When he did write books, his first published work was a syllabus
of plane geometry, followed by a biography of Euclid. His best known books,
The Alice In Wonderland series, reflect the complex abstraction of
higher mathematics, at the same time capturing the simple innocence
of childhood.
He was shy. He stammered. But he was also a friend and storyteller to
children, and the original of "Alice in Wonderland" was a handwritten
copy of a story he had been telling one summer afternoon to the
daughters of the Dean of his school — six-year-old Alice Liddell
and her sisters. An enlarged and revised version was later published with
the familiar illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Together with its
sequel, Through the Looking Glass, it is one of the best known
children's books ever written, and Alice herself is one of the most
familiar characters in literature.
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