Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there is as funny and fantastic as its predecessor and companion masterpiece Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice "lightly jumped down" into a world peopled by chess pieces (the game itself is woven into the story and Carroll gives the moves in the very first page of the book) and oddly-different nursery rhyme characters: Tweedledum who gets so cross because his "nice new rattle" is spoiled and his brother Tweedledee who recites for Alice the superb nonsense poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter".

With Alice you will meet Humpty Dumpty, who helpfully explains to her the meaning of that other masterpiece of nonsense verse "Jabberwocky," and the kindly, dotty White Knight who likes to protect his horse's legs from shark bites.

Through the Looking-Glass has delighted and entranced children — and adults — for more than a hundred years and will no doubt do so for another hundred.

THE MACMILLAN ALICE
1991 is the 125th Anniversary of the publication by Macmillan of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and we are celebrating the event with the re-issue, with new jacket designs, of our editions of both Alice books. Details can be found on the backflap.
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