Looking-glass world
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The looking-glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.
| Looking-glass world | |
|---|---|
| Through the Looking-Glass location | |
 The looking-glass world by John Tenniel... | |
 ...and by Peter Newell | |
| Created by | Lewis Carroll |
| Genre | Children's book |
| Information | |
| Type | Monarchy |
| Ruler | White King, Red King |
| Ethnic group(s) | Whites, Reds |
| Notable locations | Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall |
| Notable characters | White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen, Red Queen |
| Language(s) | Looking-Glass language (mirror-image English) |
GeographyEdit
... and a most curious country it was.
The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.
GovernmentEdit
The land is contested by two competing factions, the Reds and the Whites. Each side has its King and Queen, bishops, knights, armies, and castles.
InhabitantsEdit
In other mediaEdit
- The Looking-glass world is featured in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. In this series, the world is known as Wonderland and the Looking-glass world is just a realm within Wonderland, ruled by the Red King and Queen.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Manguel, Alberto; Gianni Guadalupi (2000). The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Newly updated and expanded ed.). San Diego: Harcourt. pp. 382–383. ISBN 0-15-600872-6.
External linksEdit
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