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  • Through the Looking-Glass

  • Written by: Lewis Carroll
  • Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
  • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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Through the Looking-Glass

Written by: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Harlan Ellison
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Publisher's 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.
Classics Fantasy & Magic
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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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The perfect narrator!

I was beyond thrilled to see this edition with Harlan Ellison as the narrator - his performance brings all the wonderful weird whimsy vividly to life!

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questionable voice acting choices.

I can't figure out why he chose to make the white Queen sound like she was from the south in the USA. The White knight sounds like Ren from Ren and Stimpy. Other voices are fine but those 2 throw me off whenever I hear them.

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  • J A
  • 2019-06-09

Excellent and very fun!

Harlan Ellison does such a good job narrating this book that you'd think Lewis Carroll had in mind characters like John Wayne, Blanche DuBois and Peter Lorre when he wrote it in the first place!

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Who doesn't like the narration?

-perfect pace
-emphasis on jokes without ruining them
-great version
I'd listen a few more times easily.

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