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Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
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 This 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares.

Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters.

Public Domain (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Royalty Game Chess

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"By any reckoning...[one of the] most original works of fiction to emerge from that strange and original time known as Victorian England." (Guardian)
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Everybody knows the book so this is just about the narration which is quite good, although towards the end he seems a bit tired of it and rushing to finish 😂

Harlan does a good job of the narration

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I certainly wasn’t expecting American southern accents or Mexican accents, morphing into German accents. And what’s with the weird “goat” noises all the way through?
It’s like a car crash - horrifying but I couldn’t turn away out of fascination

Bizarre

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I can’t stop listening to this book every night! I love it sooo much!! ( review from ten year old girl )

I can’t stop listening to this !

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Unlistenable, Alice in wonderland should never be narrated by Americans. Emphasis all wrong, just painful

The worst narration

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I got midway through the Humpty Dumpty chapter and couldn't listen anymore .. The American accents didn't do t for me and it seemed almost , "improvised" rather than read . . An interesting interpretation but as I've never read./heard the book before I found it to be distracting rather than engaging.

Through the looking glass into the USA

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