Through the Looking-Glass: A Facsimile Reprint of the 1872 Edition (Paperback)

from Breton07

I liked this edition so much. I enjoyed re-reading the book since my childhood. However, being able to see how Lewis Carroll's own illustrations influenced Sir John Tenniel's was inspiring! Their collaboration really worked! I've always felt this book was a second home for me. I had a chance to r...

from jeffome

MUCH better than Alice in Wonderland....very clever word-play....a story that actually was enough of a story i was somewhat interested...but again, i say, I'm probably just too old to connect with this....relieved to have gotten these off of my list.

from Kassilem

I've heard that a lot of people liked this book more than the first, Alice in Wonderland. I found I did myself as well. Perhaps because you get use to the way Carroll writes. Or perhaps because there is more of a goal to the plot here. Alice is working her way to become a queen and the nonsense c...

from bdgamer

I knew the Alice books were charmingly weird and random, but I wasn't prepared for such a high level of anarchy. This time around the characters are stranger and even more chaotic than the original. But there's a certain level of fun in them, although it does get rather played out by the end of t...

from john257hopper

I found this sequel less entertaining than Wonderland. The basic idea of a topsy turvy world within a mirror and the Red and White Queens being Alice's kittens is good, but I found a lot of this a bit flat. The Jabberwocky is a great nonsense poem, though. 3.5/5