Through the Looking-Glass

American  

noun

1. a story for children (1871) by Lewis Carroll: the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Through the Looking-Glass Cultural  

1. (1872) The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. In it, Alice passes through a mirror over a fireplace and finds herself once more in an enchanted land, where she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and other amazing creatures.

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Example Sentences

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice runs endlessly alongside the Red Queen but never moves ahead.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026

Few stories have endured as much scholarship or appropriation as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2015

The titular heroine of Lewis Carroll’s whimsical classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass has changed to reflect the aesthetics of the times outside her fictional word.

From Time • May 6, 2015

Steadman, who illustrated Lewis Caroll's children's classic Through the Looking-Glass in 1973, has reproduced some of these illustrations for one of the seats.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2014

Meanwhile "Through the Looking-Glass" was steadily progressing—not, however, without many little hitches.

From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson