Book description
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange
world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty
Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is
what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass,
everything
is distorted. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98),
grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish
priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a
meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in
Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass
in 1867. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the
nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark
and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.
