Alice Through the Looking Glass

Author: Lewis Carroll Series: Chiltern Classic

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When Alice discovers she can step right through a mirror, she enters a fantastical world of logic-defying reversals. She meets the Red Queen, who lets her join a giant game of chess playing out across the landscape. A lowly pawn in the game, Alice meets a host of extraordinary characters as she makes her way up the chessboard, determined to become a queen herself.

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About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name LewisCarroll. Carroll was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice'sAdventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass . He wasnoted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. He was also amathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon. Dodgson was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys born to Frances Jane Lutwidge, the wife of the Rev. Charles Dodgson. He was born in the old parsonage at Daresbury. His father was perpetual curate there from 1827 until 1843, when he became rector of Croft in Yorkshire--a post he held for the rest of his life though later he also became archdeacon of Richmond and a canon of Ripon cathedral.