Through The Looking Glass

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Lewis Carroll. Through The Looking Glass

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house

CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers

CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects

CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee

CHAPTER V. Wool and Water

CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty

CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn

CHAPTER VIII. ‘It’s my own Invention’

CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice

CHAPTER X. Shaking

CHAPTER XI. Waking

CHAPTER XII. Which Dreamed it?

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‘I should see the garden far better,’ said Alice to herself, ‘if I could get to the top of that hill: and here’s a path that leads straight to it — at least, no, it doesn’t do that — ’ (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), ‘but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It’s more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, THIS turn goes to the hill, I suppose — no, it doesn’t! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I’ll try it the other way.’

And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.

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‘You can’t possibly do that,’ said the Rose: ‘I should advise you to walk the other way.’

This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at once towards the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of her in a moment, and found herself walking in at the front-door again.

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