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“Through the Looking-Glass” by Lewis Carroll

December 27th, 2009 by Foreign Reader

“Through the Looking-Glass” is the second book dedicated to Alice and her wonderful adventures in her dreams. This time Alice finds herself inside a weird chess game and meets a lot of funny characters who do and say strange things and recite a lot of poems. At last she becomes a Queen, though it doesn’t make her life in the looking-glass world much easier.

One would think the world on the other side of the looking-glass is an exact reflection of our own world. How boring and unimaginative we adults must be to think so! As Alice soon finds out, it’s as different from our world as could be.
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“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

December 25th, 2009 by Foreign Reader

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is a beautiful and cosy fairy tale that has been making generations of children and adults alike smile and feel happier. Very unusual for the genre, it’s not really a fairy tale, but a child’s dream – too logical and clear for a dream, but way too muddled and crazy for our boring real world.
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