Through the Looking-Glass

Reading time: about 2 h
Length: 29,729 words · 86 pages in print
Structure: 12 chapters
Language: English
Era: Victorian

Alice climbs through the drawing-room mirror into a country laid out as a chessboard, where she must cross from pawn to queen past the Red and White Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight. Lewis Carroll published the sequel to Wonderland in December 1871 (dated 1872); it contains “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter”.

The book is a chess problem as well as a story: the Dramatis Personæ at the front sets out the pieces, and every move Alice makes is a move on the board, from the second square to the eighth. Its inventions have long outlasted the game — the Jabberwock, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Humpty Dumpty on what a word may be made to mean, the White Knight falling off his horse.

The twelve chapters are given complete, with the closing acrostic.

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