Through The Looking Glasses

Download or read book Through The Looking Glasses written by Travis Elborough and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times 'Fascinating' Observer The humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses? Through the Looking Glasses traces the fascinating story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids for monkish scribes right through to today's designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. There are encounters with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers and spectacle-makers, as well as the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, the rock'n'roller Buddy Holly and the full-screen figure of Marilyn Monroe. This is a book about vision and the need for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our eyesight has led us.

Download or read book Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There written by Lewis Carroll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells of Alice's experiences when she climbs through a mirror to discover a bizarre fantasy world on the other side of the glass.

Download or read book Through the Looking-glass written by Lewis Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Through the Looking-Glass written by Lewis Carroll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to the immediately successful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), he created an entirely new fantasy world with a revised narrative structure. The twelve-chapter format was retained, but Looking-Glass is significantly longer than Wonderland (224 compared to 192 pages in the first editions), and introduces a range of new characters, and is framed by Alice's progression across a chess board to become queen. This new edition focuses solely on Through the Looking-Glass, with a penetrating and informative introduction by Zoe Jaques, including the most recent research and critical opinion on the subject matter.

Download or read book Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There written by Льюис Кэрролл and published by Litres. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: В книгу вошел сокращенный и упрощенный текст сказки Л. Кэрролла о девочке Алисе, чудесным образом оказавшейся в удивительном мире Зазеркалья. Путешествуя по зазеркальному миру, Алиса попадает в самые невероятные ситуации, знакомится с фантастическими существами и... даже становится королевой! Текст сказки сопровождается комментариями, упражнениями на проверку понимания прочитанного, а также небольшим словарем, облегчающим чтение.Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык нижней ступени (уровень 2 – Pre-Intermediate).

Download or read book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Alice Through the Looking-Glass written by Lewis Carroll and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" – Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes and gets stuck in a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" – Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc).

Download or read book Through the Looking-Glass - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Lewis Carroll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 'I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and . . . Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!' A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. The chess pieces talk and argue with her, give orders and repeat poems . . . It is the strangest dream that anyone ever had . . .