Alice's second set of adventures takes her into a world even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn''t as easy as she thinks: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky", have become as famous as the Alice stories themselves.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.'

In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure and shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world full of the fantastical and extraordinary.

Preface

Author's Note

Dramatis Personae

Chapter 1 Looking-Glass House 'Jabberwocky' .

Chapter 2 The Garden of live Flowers

Chapter 3 Looking-Glass Insects

Chapter 4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Chapter 5 Wool and Water

Chapter 6 Humpty Dumpty

Chapter 7 The Lion and the Unicorn

Chapter 8 'It's My Own Invention'

Chapter 9 Queen Alice

Chapter 10 Shaking

Chapter 11 Waking

Chapter 12 Which Dreamed It?

Afterword