| Through the Looking-Glass Contributor(s): Carroll, Lewis (Author), Ellison, Harlan (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433287528 ISBN-13: 9781433287527 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: Alice is back in her room, stroking her cats--but not for long. Slipping through the Looking-Glass she meets another wild collection of fantasy characters including the Red and White Kings and Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and is entertained by the poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter." 3 CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.9" W x 6.3" (0.45 lbs) 3 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carroll, Lewis: - Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames. Among his other works are Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky. Ellison, Harlan: -Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) wrote and edited more than 120 books and more than 1,700 stories, essays, and articles, as well as dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He won the Hugo award nine times, the Nebula award three times, the Bram Stoker award six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Melies Fantasy Film Award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer's union. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006. |