Book· 1871· Fantasy

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

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Alice in Wonderland

Animation · 1951

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Disney's film is built from BOTH Alice books, which is why it is worth recording separately from the 1865 one. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and the talking flowers are all from Through the Looking-Glass and none of them is in Wonderland. The film takes the characters and drops the chess structure they belong to.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Set in the Alice in Wonderland universe.

In this second novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central figure, Alice, enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a large looking-glass into a world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just as in a reflection, things are reversed, including logic.

Elsewhere in the Alice in Wonderland universe