Alice Through the Looking-Glass A Timeless Fantasy Adventure of Wonder, Wordplay, and Imagination
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.10.2026
Verlag
Timeless Tale Co.Seitenzahl
98
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,6 cm
Gewicht
156 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-80934-030-6
Step through the mirror and discover a world where everything familiar becomes wonderfully strange in Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll's timeless classic of fantasy, imagination, wordplay, and unforgettable adventure. After the extraordinary world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice returns for another journey beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality. This time, a looking-glass becomes the doorway to a remarkable realm shaped like a giant chessboard-a place where logic works backward, language has a mischievous life of its own, and every encounter brings a new puzzle, surprise, or absurdity. As Alice makes her way through this curious world, she meets some of the most memorable characters in classic children's literature. The quarrelsome Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the eccentric Humpty Dumpty, the formidable Red Queen, the bewildering White Queen, and many other strange personalities challenge her understanding of words, rules, time, and common sense. Each meeting draws her deeper into a fantasy landscape where nothing behaves quite as expected. First published in 1871, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is much more than a whimsical children's adventure. Lewis Carroll combines imaginative storytelling with clever riddles, linguistic games, comic conversations, poetry, and playful explorations of logic. The famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" is only one example of the extraordinary verbal creativity that has made the book an enduring landmark of English literature. At the center of the story is Alice herself: curious, intelligent, independent, and determined to understand the strange rules surrounding her. Her attempts to apply reason to an unreasonable world create some of the book's funniest moments while also introducing deeper questions about identity, language, dreams, growing up, and the nature of reality. The chessboard structure gives Alice's journey a distinctive character. Instead of wandering through a completely unpredictable landscape, she moves through a world governed by mysterious patterns and rules. Yet knowing that rules exist does not necessarily make them easier to understand. Carroll continually transforms familiar ideas into delightful paradoxes, inviting readers to question assumptions they normally take for granted. Behind the nonsense lies remarkable sophistication. Carroll's background in mathematics and logic can be felt throughout the novel, but these ideas never overwhelm the adventure. They become part of the fun, creating a story that can be enjoyed by children for its magical characters and surprising situations while offering older readers additional layers of humor, symbolism, and meaning. More than 150 years after its first publication, Alice Through the Looking-Glass continues to enchant generations of readers. Its imaginative fantasy world, clever wordplay, memorable characters, dreamlike atmosphere, and playful approach to logic have secured its place among the greatest classics of children's literature. Perfect for readers who enjoy classic children's fantasy, magical adventures, whimsical stories, literary nonsense, Victorian literature, imaginative fiction, and timeless books that reward repeated reading, this beloved Lewis Carroll classic offers an escape into a world unlike any other. Enter the Looking-Glass world and follow Alice into a captivating adventure where chess pieces come alive, words refuse to stay obedient, impossible ideas become perfectly reasonable, and curiosity opens the door to endless wonder.
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