Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is our new book in Braille. First published in 1871, it was a sequel to his legendary book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865. We have published this sequel first on request. We shall publish the first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in Braille in a few months.
Alice is playing with her two pets, a black and a white kitten while enjoying her afternoon nap in the winter. She climbs up onto the fireplace mantel and discovers to her surprise that there is another world behind the wall-hung mirror. Alice easily steps over into the new world, the looking-glass world. In this world she discovers the magic of mirror-image when she is able to read a reverse-written poem with the help of a looking-glass. She discovers a chess where the pieces soon come alive.
The surprise does not end here. Alice becomes the white queen’s pawn and during a game of chess she advances with the help of others to the eighth row and she herself becomes a queen. Her experiences during the journey to the final row on the chess are marked with many hints that will remind Bengali readers of many similarities in Sukumar Ray’s HaJaBaRaLa. Alice’s crowning is celebrated through a mad party where she has very little to do except listening to the advices of the White Queen and the Red Queen. The crowning ceremony turns to a chaos when Alice is awakened to reality.
About Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898) was the pen name of Charles Dodgson. By profession he was a teacher of mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford and wrote several books on his subject. He was also an illustrator and a photographer. His books on mathematical topics earned him respect among the scholars of his time, the world has remembered him as a writer of nonsense prose and poetry – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, The Hunting of the Snark and “Jabberwocky”.
Through the Looking-Glass is complete in two Braille volumes. The catalogue price of the books is INR 149. Visit our Braille books page for information on other books and the procedure of purchase.
