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Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Alice plays with her black kitten, then steps through the mirror.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate2,582 characters · ≈ 4 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn’t have had any hand in the mischief.

The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr—no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.…

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About the book

Through the Looking-Glass, published in December 1871, is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice climbs through a mirror into a reversed world where logic works backwards, encounters characters such as the Red Queen and Humpty Dumpty, and the story is built around the theme of chess. It contains verses like "Jabberwocky" and phrases that have entered common usage, which makes it worth reading.

About the author

Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. He is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark.

Summary prepared with AI from Wikipedia: Through the Looking-Glass (CC BY-SA)

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