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Through the Looking-Glass

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noun

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


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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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

A term coined by biologist Leigh Van Valen, who summoned the image of the constantly running Red Queen from Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2011

You remember the insect, don't you, in Through the Looking-Glass?

From Olivia in India by Douglas, O.

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