Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Author
- Lewis Carroll
Publication
12/1/1871
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.
Content
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass House
CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers
CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects
CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
CHAPTER V. Wool and Water
CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty
CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn
CHAPTER VIII. “It’s my own Invention”
CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice
CHAPTER X. Shaking
CHAPTER XI. Waking
CHAPTER XII. Which Dreamed it?