Looking-Glass world
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| Looking-Glass world | |
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| Through the Looking-Glass location | |
 The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by John Tenniel (1872 edition) | |
 The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by Peter Newell (1902 edition) | |
| Created by | Lewis Carroll |
| Genre | Children's fantasy |
| In-universe 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
[edit]... 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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References
[edit]- 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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