Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll

"Through the Looking Glass" was written in 1871 by Lewis Carroll, following "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Alice enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic. Alice's story is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. One of the best known and most popular works of English language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.