Looking-glass world | |
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The looking-glass world by John Tenniel...
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...and by Peter Newell
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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.
The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.
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.