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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"
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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"

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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535841061
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"

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      A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" - Gale

      08

      Through the Looking-Glass

      Lewis Carroll

      1871

      Introduction

      In 1869, Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym for Charles Dodgson) began to write the sequel novel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which had been published four years earlier to mixed reviews. Through the Looking-Glass was published at Christmas in 1871 in an edition of nine thousand copies, with illustrations (as with the first book) by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914). The second novel immediately found a more appreciative audience than its predecessor and has come to be considered a groundbreaking blend of playful (though sophisticated) logic, social satire, and exuberant fantasy that captures the imagination of children and adult readers alike. With its elaborate depictions of a world in which lives are manipulated like chess pieces and in which inverse relations become the norm, Through the Looking-Glass offers readers a chance to engage an imaginative dream world. For readers for whom the age of seven is a distant memory, the novel provides the chance to think about what has passed and, as the closing poem promises, to spend time Dreaming as the days go by.

      Author Biography

      The writer who rose to prominence as Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832, at Daresdury in Cheshire, England. His father was a gifted mathematician (also named Charles) who had turned his back on a promising academic career in order to live his life in obscurity as a country parson. Young Charles was the third child (and eldest son) in a family that would eventually include eleven children. From all accounts, the childhood was a happy one, though young Dodgson suffered from a stammer, a condition that was shared by several of his siblings. He was also deaf in his right ear, which combined with his speech impediment may have stopped him from continuing the family tradition of taking orders in the Church of England.

      In 1843, the elder Charles was made rector of Croft, north Yorkshire, a relatively lucrative position that meant moving the family into the local rectory, where they lived for the next twenty-five years. Dodgson's father provided his son a strong background in Latin, mathematics, and theology, which proved a solid foundation from which Dodgson could build when he entered the small Richmond School at the age of twelve. Life was more stressful and less happy when he moved to a larger school, Rugby, in 1845. Although he excelled in his studies, he was undoubtedly

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