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Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966) was an NBC TV musical special, first airing on 6 November. The special includes music by Moose Charlap, and stars Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Palance, Jimmy Durante, and the Smothers Brothers, along with Judi Rolin in the role of Alice.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1871
Nov 25, 2020 · Through the Looking-Glass: plot summary. The novel begins with Alice sitting indoors on a winter afternoon, curled up in an armchair with her kitten for company. As the snow falls outside, Alice asks her kitten to imitate one of the chess pieces in front of them.
“Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there” was published in December 1871 (but was dated 1872), indeed in an edition of 9,000 copies. The exact day of publication is unknown, but according to Macmillan’s ‘Editions book’, the first printing occurred on 18 November 1871 ( Imholtz ).
Alice finds herself in a forest, conversing with a chicken sized Gnat, who tells her about the different insects of Looking-Glass World. After learning the names of the insects, Alice sets off again and discovers that she has forgotten the names of things, even her own name.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1871
- Looking Glass House. While Dinah washes her kitten Snowdrop, Alice lectures Dinah's other kitten, Kitty about manners after unrolling a ball of twine and tries to have her pretend she is the Red Queen.
- Garden of Live Flowers. Alice wants to see the garden, and decides the best view is by the hill. However, she keeps returning to the front of the house and becomes a little frustrated.
- Looking Glass Insects. Studying the country from the hill, she sees what she first thinks are gigantic bees but they are in fact elephants. She resists the temptation to converse with them and jumps over a brook into Third Square.
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Tweedledum and Tweedledee stand silently under a tree when Alice finds them. They talk in strange sentences and Alice recites the poem Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
In Through the Looking-Glass, Alice is a child not yet eight years old. She has been raised in a wealthy Victorian household and is interested in good manners, which she demonstrates with her pet, Kitty.
Alice is a happy child, if a lonely one; the novel opens with her talking to her cats, Dinah, Snowdrop, and Kitty, and she's the only human who appears in the novel. She has an expansive imagination, her favorite phrase being "let's pretend."
