The magical sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues Alice's escapades as she enters a new realm of fantasy.Alice goes through the looking glass into another world whose eccentric inhabitants seem to be either chess-pieces or characters from nursery rhymes - that is, when they are not talking flowers or insects. Obeying their own impossible rules of logic, they are all full of criticism or good advice as Alice, a lowly Pawn, sets out on her quest to become a Queen of the Chess Board.On her journey she meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the White Knight as well as her own dinner. She learns to keep running fast enough to stay in the same place, why there is never jam today and about the importance of believing six impossible things after breakfast. It is not surprising that Alice is confused as to who is dreaming it all...

As the chess-problem, given on a previous page, has puzzled some of my readers, it may be well to explain that it is correctly worked out, so far as the moves are concerned. The a/ternation of Red and White is perhaps not so strictly observed as it might be, and the " castling" of the three Queens is merely a way of saying that they entered the palace: but the "check" of the White King at move 6, the capture of the Red Knight at move 7,and the final "checkmate" of the Red King, will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to set the pieces and play the moves as directed, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of the game. The new words, in the poem Jabberwocky (see p. 202), have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronunciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce "slithy" as if it were the two words "sly, the": make the "g" hard in "gyre" and "gimble": and pronounce " rath" to rhyme with " bath."

PREFACE

LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE

THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS

LOOKING"GLASS INSECTS

TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE

WOOL AND WATER

HUMPTY DUMPTY

THE LION AND THE UNICORN

"IT"S MY OWN INVENTION

QUEEN ALICE

SHAKING

WAKING

WHICH  DREAMED  IT?