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Title: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0-486-40878-7 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Alice, the pacified rebel
Comment: Lewis Carroll sends Alice on a second set of adventures in some territory that is beyond our world. This time she crosses a mirror and enters a game of chess. She will eventually become a queen but she will in all possible ways express her deep desire to rebel against a world that is seen as having too many limitations and frustrating rules. She will in a way rebel against the game of chess itself when she comes to the end of it and pulls the tablecloth from under all the pawns and pieces to have peace and quiet, to free herself of absolute slavery. But what is she the slave of ? Of rules, the rules of the game, the rules of society, the rules of education. Of words and their silly ambiguities that enable them to mean both one sense and its reverse, that enable them to lead to absurd statements and declarations that completely block her in blind alleys and impasses. But at the same time, her return to the normal world that transforms those adventures into a dream, is a rejection of such adventures and of such rebellion as being absurd and purely fantasmatic, dreamlike. There is in this book a rather sad lesson that comes out of this ending : children can dream adventures, can dream perfect freedom, but reason brings them back to the comfortable world of everyday life and submission. And there is no other way possible. This book is pessimistic about a possible evolution from one generation to the next thanks to the retension of childish, childlike dreams, forgetting that the world can only change and progress thanks to the fuel those dreams represent in our social engine.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book in its own right.
Comment: "Through The Looking Glass" is, perhaps, not QUITE as good as "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland", but it's close enough to still rate five stars. Not, properly, a sequel to the first book, there is no indication at any point in it that the Alice (clearly the same individual, slightly older) from this book ever had the adventures in the first one; there is no reference to her previous adventures, even when she once again meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Obviously, the two books are intended as parallel adventures, not subsequent ones.
The most memorable bits from this book are doubtlessly the poem, "Jabberwocky", as well as chapter six, "Humpty Dumpty". But all of the book is marvellous, and not to be missed by anyone who enjoys a magical romp through silliness and playful use of the English language.
(This review refers to the unabridged "Dover Thrift Edition".)
Rating: 5
Summary: a masterpiece
Comment: Carrol was a profound and wonderful writer, and Through the Looking Glass... is definate proof of this. Though there isn't much evidence that he was a pedophile, you shouldn't grade his works simply on who he might or might not have been. Through the Looking Glass... is one of the greatest works of literature in the english language, and will continue to be despite the author's supposed problems.
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Title:Alice in Wonderland ASIN: 6303212301 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 31 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0486415821 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner ISBN: 0451527747 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Alice in Wonderland Coloring Book by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0486228533 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Tenniel ISBN: 0393048470 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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