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"The glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist." So Alice goes through it, and... there are chessmen walking about, two by two. In the garden, where the flowers can speak in human voices, the human-sized Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank in a chess match. And now the girl is a pawn of the Red Queen...
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"The glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist." So Alice goes through it, and... there are chessmen walking about, two by two. In the garden, where the flowers can speak in human voices, the human-sized Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank in a chess match. And now the girl is a pawn of the Red Queen and is set on the path towards her destiny...
The stories of Alice, full of subverted poetry (including the famous "Jabberwocky”), symbols and riddles, are considered to be some of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre and since their publication (the sequel was first issued in 1871), have had a lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.
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| Title | Through The Looking-Glass |
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| Contributors | 0 |
| Language | English |
| Available Formats | MOBI, EPUB, PDF |
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