Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" is the brilliant and surreal sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The story begins on a snowy winter day, with Alice pondering what the world is like on the other side of the drawing-room mirror. To her astonishment, she steps through the glass into a looking-glass world where logic is reversed, everything is backwards, and life is structured as a gigantic chess game. Alice finds herself a pawn in this game, with the goal of advancing to the eighth square to become a Queen. Her journey across the chessboard landscape introduces her to a new cast of unforgettable characters, including the antagonistic Red Queen, the kind but feeble White Queen, the melancholy White Knight, and the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter." She encounters the nonsensical and pompous Humpty Dumpty, who explicates the strange poem "Jabberwocky," and a chaotic dinner party with the Lion and the Unicorn. The narrative is framed by the rules of chess and filled with clever wordplay, mirror imagery, and logical paradoxes. Lewis Carroll creates a world that is both a playful distortion of reality and a subtle commentary on the arbitrary rules of society, all while delivering a dreamlike adventure that has captivated readers with its imaginative depth and whimsical charm.

Table of Contents:

• Through the Looking-Glass. Part 1

• Through the Looking-Glass. Part 2