Looking-glass world
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| 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 |
| Locations | Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall |
| 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[]
... 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[]
- Haigha
- Hatta
- Humpty Dumpty
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Red King
- Red Queen
- The Sheep
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- White King
- White Knight
- White Queen
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.
External links[]
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