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Through the Looking-Glass

Chapter 2: And What Alice Found There
By Lewis Carroll
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The story follows a curious girl who passes through a mirror into a reversed, fantastical world governed by playful logic and linguistic puzzles. Organized like a chess game, her journey advances square by square as she meets animate flowers, talking creatures, twins who recite nonsense, a pompous egglike figure, and feuding heraldic beasts, each episode testing rules of meaning and identity. Episodes blend riddles, parody, and absurd conversations that unsettle conventional cause and effect, culminating in a mock coronation before she awakens and questions whether the adventure was a dream. Themes include mirror inversion, the elasticity of language, and childhood imagination meeting adult reasoning.

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Title: Through the Looking-Glass

Author: Lewis Carroll

Release date: June 25, 2008 [eBook #12]
Most recently updated: November 21, 2025

Language: English

Credits: David Widger

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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

And What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll

The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
(As arranged before commencement of game.)

WHITE    RED.
PIECES.PAWNS.    PAWNS.PIECES.
Tweedledee.Daisy.    Daisy.Humpty Dumpty.
Unicorn.Haigha.    Messenger.Carpenter.
Sheep.Oyster.    Oyster.Walrus.
W. Queen.“Lily.”    Tiger-lily.R. Queen.
W. King.Fawn.    Rose.R. King.
Aged man.Oyster.    Oyster.Crow.
W. Knight.Hatta.    Frog.R. Knight.
Tweedledum.Daisy.    Daisy.Lion.

RED.

WHITE.

White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.

1. Alice meets R. Q.
            1. R. Q. to K. R.’s 4th
2. Alice through Q.’s 3d (by railway) to 4th (Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
            2. W. Q. to Q. B.’s 4th (after shawl)
3. Alice meets W. Q. (with shawl)
            3. W. Q. to Q.B.’s 5th (becomes sheep)
4. Alice to Q.’s 5th (shop, river, shop)
            4. W. Q. to K. B.’s 8th (leaves egg on shelf)
5. Alice to Q.’s 6th (Humpty Dumpty)
            5. W. Q. to Q. B.’s 8th (flying from R. Kt.)
6. Alice to Q.’s 7th (forest)
            6. R. Kt. to K.’s 2nd (ch.)
7. W.Kt. takes R.Kt.
            7. W. Kt. to K. B’s 5th
8. Alice to Q.’s 8th (coronation)
            8. R. Q. to K.’s sq. (examination)
9. Alice becomes Queen
            9. Queens castle
10. Alice castles (feast)
            10. W.Q. to Q.R.’s 6th (soup)
11. Alice takes R.Q. & wins