Looking-glass world

Looking-glass world
The looking-glass world by John Tenniel...
...and by Peter Newell
Through the Looking-Glass location
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Genre	Children's book
Type	Monarchy
Ethnic group(s)	Whites, Reds
Language(s)	Looking-Glass language (mirror-image English)

Looking-glass world
Through the Looking-Glass location
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Genre	Children's books
Notable locations	Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall
Notable characters	White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty

The looking-glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.

Geography

“

... and a most curious country it was.

”

The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.

Government

The land is contested by two competing factions, the Reds and the Whites. Each side has its King and Queen, bishops, knights, armies, and castles.

Inhabitants

References

Manguel, Alberto; Gianni Guadalupi (2000). The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Newly updated and expanded ed.). San Diego: Harcourt. pp. 382–383. ISBN 0-15-600872-6.

External links

Map of "The Looking-Glass Lands" by Triple Ace Games

Lewis Carroll's Alice

Characters

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Alice The White Rabbit The Mouse The Dodo The Duck The Lory Eaglet Pat Bill the Lizard Puppy The Caterpillar The Duchess The Cheshire Cat The March Hare The Hatter Tarrant Hightopp The Dormouse The Queen of Hearts The King of Hearts The Knave of Hearts The Gryphon The Mock Turtle

Through the Looking-Glass	Alice The Red Queen The White Queen The Red King The White King The White Knight Tweedledum and Tweedledee The Sheep Humpty Dumpty Haigha Hatta The Lion and the Unicorn Bandersnatch Jubjub Bird

Related topics

Adaptations

Poems	"All in the golden afternoon..." "How Doth the Little Crocodile" "The Mouse's Tale" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" "You Are Old, Father William" "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster" "Jabberwocky" "The Walrus and the Carpenter" "Haddocks' Eyes" "They told me you had been to her..." "The Mock Turtle's Song" "The Hunting of the Snark"

Sequels	A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966) Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984) Automated Alice (1996) Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)

Retellings	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)

Parodies	The Westminster Alice (1902) Clara in Blunderland (1902) Lost in Blunderland (1903) John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)

Imitations	Mopsa the Fairy (1869) Davy and the Goblin (1884) The Admiral's Caravan (1891) Gladys in Grammarland (1896) A New Wonderland (1898) Rollo in Emblemland (1902) Justnowland (1912) Alice in Orchestralia (1925)

Reimagining	Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966) Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Adventures in Wonderland (1991) The Looking Glass Wars (2006) Alice (2009) Malice in Wonderland (2009) Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

Film	1903 1910 1915 1931 1933 1949 1951 1966 1972 1976 1982 1985 1987 1988 (Czechoslovak) 1988 (Australian) 1995 1999

Stage	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ballet) Alice in Wonderland (musical) Alice in Wonderland (opera) Peter and Alice (2013 play) Wonder.land (musical)

Television	Fushigi no Kuni no Alice Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Literary	Alice in Murderland Alice in the Country of Hearts Miyuki-chan in Wonderland

Video games	Alice no Paint Adventure (1995) Alice in Wonderland (2000) American McGee's Alice (2000) Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alice: Madness Returns (2011) Kingdom Hearts

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