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is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
There are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backward, and so on.
Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, for which the author provides a list of moves even if the game cannot be carried out legally due to a move where white doesn't move out of check (much as might happen if a seven or eight year old was playing chess). Also the sequence of moves (white and red) is not always followed.
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare make an appearance as the Hatta and Haigha.
Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through to experience this world. She discovers a book with looking-glass poetry, Jabberwocky, which she can only read by holding it up to a mirror. Upon leaving the house, the enters a garden, where the flowers speak to her and mistake her for a flower. There, Alice also meets the Red Queen, who offers a throne to Alice if she just moves to the eighth rank in a chess match. Alice is placed as the White Queen's pawn, and begins the game by taking a train to the fourth rank, since pawns in chess move two spaces on the first move.
She then meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who she knows of from the famous nursery rhyme. After reciting to her the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter", the two proceed to act out the events of the poem. Alice continues on to meet the White Queen, who is very absent-minded and later transforms into a sheep.
The following chapter details her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, who explains to her the meaning of "Jabberwocky", before his inevitable fall from the wall. This is followed by an encounter with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out the nursery rhyme. She is then rescued from the Red Knight by the White Knight, who many consider to be a representation of Lewis Carroll himself.
At this point, she reaches the eight rank and becomes a queen, and by capturing the Red Queen, puts the Red King (who has remained stationary throughout the book) into checkmate. She then awakes from her dream (if it was a dream), and blames her black kitten (the white kitten was wholly innocent) for the mischief caused by the story.
At the suggestion of his illustrator, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll decided to supress a scene involving Alice's encounter with a wasp wearing an old barrister's wig. The scene has been published in Martin GardnerMartin Gardner (born October 21, 1914) is an American recreational mathematician and author of the long-running but now discontinued Mathematical Games' column in Scientific American. Interests and writings Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Martin Gardner more or's The Annotated AliceThe Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass''. It has extensive annotations explaining them, including the Victorian poems that Carrol: The Definitive Edition.
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