Looking-glass world

Looking-glass world
The looking-glass world by John Tenniel...
...and by Peter Newell
Through the Looking-Glass location
Created by Lewis Carroll
Genre Children's book
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)

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

Geography

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

  • 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 also

References

  • 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.


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