Through the Looking-Glass

"Through the Looking-Glass" is a novel by Lewis Carroll. The themes and settings make it a kind of a mirror image of "Alice in Wonderland": it begins outdoors, uses frequent changes in size, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the Looking-Glass opens indoors, uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. So this audiobook is based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Most main characters in the story are represented by a chess piece or animals, with Alice herself being a pawn.

The looking-glass world is divided into sections by brooks or streams, with the crossing of each brook usually signifying a notable change in the scene and action of the story: the brooks represent the divisions between squares on the chessboard, and Alice’s crossing of them signifies advancing of her piece one square.

Lewis Carroll (real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; 1832-1898) was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.©2018 Audioliterature (P)2018 Audioliterature