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  • Through the Looking-Glass

  • By: Lewis Carroll
  • Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
  • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (54 ratings)
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Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
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Summary

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.

Critic reviews

"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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Destroyed

I never thought that it would be possible to completely ravage one of the greatest childrens books ever written, but you managed it. Who decided on this narrator who drifted between Deep South,Scottish, Irish, everything but English. Absolutely appalling, you should hold your heads in shame.


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Harlan does a good job of the narration

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 😂

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I can’t stop listening to this !

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


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classic story. bad narrator

didn't like the narrator at all! American accent for an English story and bad voices for the characters

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Bizarre

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

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Through the looking glass into the USA

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.

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