Looking-Glass world | |
Source: | Through the Looking-Glass |
Creator: | Lewis Carroll |
Genre: | Children's fantasy |
Type: | Monarchy |
Ruler: | White King, Red King |
Ethnic Groups: | Whites, Reds |
Locations: | Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall |
People: | White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen, Red Queen |
Blank Label: | Language(s) |
Blank Data: | 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.
. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places . Alberto Manguel . Gianni Guadalupi . . San Diego . Newly updated and expanded . 2000 . 0-15-600872-6 . registration . 382–383.