‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (also known as
‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’) is a novel published in 1871 by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865).
Alice’s second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn’t as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as ‘
The Walrus and the Carpenter’ and ‘
Jabberwocky’, are as famous as the Alice stories themselves.