Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Overview

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1871, serves as the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On a quiet winter afternoon, Alice imagines stepping through her mantelpiece mirror into a realm structured like a giant chessboard, where she becomes a pawn aiming to reach the eighth square and become queen. The story unfolds as a dreamlike chess game filled with backward logic, puns, and peculiar rules mirroring everyday absurdities.