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Through the Looking-Glass

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Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
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 This 1872 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.

Public Domain (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Royalty Game Chess

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"By any reckoning...[one of the] most original works of fiction to emerge from that strange and original time known as Victorian England." (Guardian)
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Listening to the late Harlan Ellison’s performance of Through the Looking-Glass felt like your Grandpa reading you a book as a child, with fantastic inflection and voices that call to the humour of something like Monty Python. It made the entire experience far more enjoyable.

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