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Looking-Glass world

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Looking-Glass world
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 byLewis Carroll
GenreChildren's fantasy
In-universe information
TypeMonarchy
RulerWhite King, Red King
Ethnic group(s)Whites, Reds
LocationsLooking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall
CharactersWhite 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

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... 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

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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

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In other media

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  • 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

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  • 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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