Category
page 1Literary characters introduced in 1871
Red Queen
character from Through the Looking-Glass
The Sheep
fictional character from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass
Red King
fictional character in "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll
White Queen
Through the Looking-Glass character
White King
fictional character from Through the Looking-Glass
Bandersnatch
A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and his 1874 poem The Hunting of the Snark. Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in The Hunting of the Snark, it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. Through the Looking-Glass implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in The Hunting of the Snark, a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in