Through the Looking-Glass in Russian and English
Alice climbs through the mirror over the fireplace into a world where everything runs backwards, and crosses a giant chessboard to become a queen. On the way she meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the White Knight. Lewis Carroll's 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The Russian text is the published translation by V. A. Azov (1924), with the verse by T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik, matched to Carroll's English sentence by sentence. Their words are kept; only the spelling and grammar were brought up to today's rules.
What's in the book
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The full story, all 12 chapters. In the PDF each English passage is followed by its Russian translation. In the EPUB they sit side by side, English on the left.
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A Book Frequency Dictionary of the 3,033 Russian nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the book, most frequent first, with part of speech, IPA pronunciation and English meaning.
Who it's for
Learners of Russian past the basics who want a whole classic novel, with the English always beside them.
Details
- Lewis Carroll; Russian translation by V. A. Azov and T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik
- Russian-English edition, 2026, 223 pages (6 x 9 inch PDF)
- E-book: EPUB, plus a PDF in two page sizes (6 x 9 and 5.5 x 8.5 inch), no DRM
- 37 passages missing from the translation were filled by machine translation and reviewed.
- Publisher: M.U.W. Edu Media & Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
