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- Because the tale that gave her and so many generations of readers such anarchic pleasure also, paradoxically, fixed the real Alice Liddell to a fictional identity, one that she could never quite outrun.
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American McGee's Alice (2000) is a computer game in which the player takes the role of a teenage Alice fighting to reclaim her sanity. It was followed by a sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, in 2011. Through the Looking-Glass (2011) was a ballet by American composer John Craton.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1871
Nov 25, 2020 · When Alice finds herself between the White Queen and the Red Queen at the end of Through the Looking-Class, it’s tempting to see this as Carroll’s veiled way of referring to Alice’s passage from childhood into adulthood, with white connoting purity and innocence, and red carrying its well-known connotations of sin, the flesh, and even ...
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While writing the ‘Looking-Glass’ story, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) used a lot of material that he had come up with earlier. In the article ‘Alice on the Stage‘ he remarked: In the six years since he wrote Alice in Wonderland, Carroll had been teaching Aliceand her sisters the game of chess. He made up stories to illustrate the moves of the pi...
On 24th August 1866, Carroll wrote to Macmillan that he was contemplating another ‘Alice’ book: On 6th February 1867, his ideas had become more concrete, as he wrote to his publisher: However, he apparently only started with the actual writing in January 1868. The progress was slow: he completed and sent the first chapter to Macmillan in January 18...
After publishing the story, Carroll kept improving it, just as he did with “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. The first edition of “Through the Looking-Glass” contained a misprint on page 21: “Wade” instead of “Wabe”, which was corrected in later editions. One of the more notable changes by Carroll is his description of the Red Queen, which was ch...
The title of the book was much discussed by Carroll. The working title of Alice’s new adventures was ‘Looking-Glass House’. It evolved to ‘Behind the Looking-Glass, and what Alice saw there’, which Dodgon mentioned in a diary entry from January 1869. In 1870 a specimen title page was produced that mentioned “Looking-Glass House, and What Alice Saw ...
The story has been translated into 65 languages, and 1,530 different editions were identified all over the world in 2015. The number keeps increasing (Lindseth and Tannenbaum).
Borchers, Melanie. “A Linguistic Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Poem ‘Jabberwocky'”, The Carrollian,no. 24, dated Autumn 2009, published November 2013. Carroll, Lewis. “Reflecting Alice. A Textual Commentary on Through the Looking-Glass“. Introduction and annotations by Selwyn Goodacre, Evertype, 2021. Demakos, Matt. Cut-Proof-Print. From Tenniel’s Ha...
Feb 16, 2022 · Our narrator tells us that after her journey through the looking-glass Alice remembered the White Knight most clearly. Of all the things she encountered there, after she has conversed with flowers and witnessed a queen turn into sheep and met a unicorn, the White Knight and his song remain clearest in her memory—even, as the narrator tells us ...
Sep 30, 2024 · Through the Looking-Glass, book by Lewis Carroll, dated 1872 but actually published in December 1871. Written as a sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice’s further adventures as she moves through a mirror into another unreal world of illogical.
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Holly Williams finds out why. For books that are all about surprising transformations, it should perhaps be no real surprise that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...
Jul 16, 2023 · Through the Looking Glass, the iconic sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is a literary masterpiece that continues to captivate readers of all ages. Unveiling the enigma behind this beloved work, we delve into the hidden meanings and symbols that lie within its pages.
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