Through the Looking-Glass
Americannoun
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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
Hugh replied that he thought that this was living life too much on the principle of the White Knight in Through the Looking-Glass.
From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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