Looking-Glass world

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Looking-Glass world
Through the Looking-Glass location
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The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by John Tenniel (1872 edition)
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The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by Peter Newell (1902 edition)
Created by Lewis Carroll
Genre Children's fantasy
In-universe information
Type Monarchy
Ruled by White King, Red King
Ethnic group(s)Whites, Reds
LocationsLooking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall
Character(s) White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen, Red Queen
Language(s)Looking-Glass language (mirror-image English)

The Looking-Glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass .

Contents

Geography

... 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.

Government

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.

Inhabitants

In other media

See also

References