Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Published in 1871

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Alice, in a blue dress and striped stockings, talks with the Red Queen, a chess piece as tall as she is, under the trees
Illustration: John Tenniel (1871), coloured for the 1911 edition

On a snowy November afternoon Alice climbs onto the mantelpiece, steps through the mirror, and finds herself in a world where everything runs backwards. The countryside outside is laid out like a giant chessboard, and Alice joins the game as a pawn who must reach the eighth square to become a queen. On the way she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight and the Red Queen. Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice in Wonderland came out in 1871.