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Through the Looking-Glass, a curious country

Author: Lewis Carroll Year: 1871 Length: 337 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.

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Through the Looking-Glass was published in 1871 as a sequel to the first Alice book. Its landscape is a chessboard and the plot follows a chess problem, which Carroll printed with the text. John Tenniel drew the pictures again and asked for one chapter to be dropped. The full text is on Project Gutenberg.

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Through the Looking-Glass was published in 1871 as a sequel to the first Alice book. Its landscape is a chessboard and the plot follows a chess problem, which Carroll printed with the text. John Tenniel drew the pictures again and asked for one chapter to be dropped. The full text is on Project Gutenberg.

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