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Through the Looking-Glass is a novel by Lewis Carroll that was first published in 1871
. It is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, who was a mathematician and logician at Christ Church, Oxford. Like Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, pokes fun at the vaunted rationality of the educated Victorian elite throughout the story. The whimsical humor of the Alice novels is drawn from a conflict between the rational ideal and the chaotic truth of the world.SparkNotes also offer a complete, separate study guide for the poem “Jabberwocky” from Chapter 1 of Through the Looking-Glass.
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