Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Genres: Classics

274 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2025

About the author

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.

Reviews

[Reece G · Rating 2 out of 5]

I rate this book a 2.5. My main reason is because of Through The Looking Glass. I wanted to go back to my childhood and decided to pick this book up and read it. I liked Alice in Wonderland and with that story alone I would rate it a 3 or a 3.5. It’s the classic Alice in the wonderland book that I grew up with and honestly read through it pretty fast. I lowered the rating to a 2.5 because of Through the Looking Glass. When reading Through the Looking Glass, I was pretty confused, lost, and bored as well. I felt like this book just didn’t have as much creativity compared to Alice in Wonderland. I think I got bored because it felt like just a bunch of random things. Like the characters and even Alice would say a bunch of random things. It felt a little pointless to read as it usually never really had nothing to do with the plot and I even started to skip over some of the long poetry parts because they really did have no meaning to them. I also felt very lost throughout the story which I think is because Alice would always end up in random places but to me there wasn’t a clear transition into the places she was going which I think maybe because of the fact that’s it’s a 19th century book. Through the Looking Glass to me felt like 19th century brain rot.

[Abby · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the first half of the book better than Through the Looking Glass.

[steph!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book will mean more to me than any other book will. Alice your whimsy and curiosity in an uninterpretable world is oh So admirable.