Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass [Through the Looking Glass]
a well-known children’s book by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1872 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It is about the adventures in a strange world of Alice, a little girl who was also the subject of Carroll’s earlier book ↑Alice in Wonderland. Alice dreams that she goes through a looking glass (= mirror) and on the other side meets the red and white queens, chess pieces who have come to life, ↑Tweedledum and Tweedledee, ↑Humpty Dumpty and the ↑lion and the unicorn.
See also Jabberwocky, See also ↑Walrus and the Carpenter ‘I don’t care for jam.’ ‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen. ‘Well, I don’t want any to-day, at any rate.’ ‘You couldn’t have it if you did want it,’ the Queen said. ‘The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day.’ ‘It must come sometimes to “jam to-day”,’ Alice objected. ‘No it can’t,’ said the Queen. ‘It’s jam every other day; to-day isn’t any other day, you know.’ ‘I don’t understand you,’ said Alice. ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’ Through the Looking Glass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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