Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

First published in 1871, this sequel sends Alice through a drawing-room mirror into a country laid out as a chessboard. She meets the Red and White Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the White Knight, and she advances as a pawn toward the eighth square and queenship. Episodes turn on backward time, talking flowers, and poems such as the Jabberwocky recitation. Looking-glass logic reverses cause and language: names mean what speakers decide, and sequence itself comes undone. The book is a children's nonsense narrative structured as a chess game, not a second river picnic of the kind that opened the earlier Alice tale.

Quarter-bound in red cloth with pale blue covers blocked in red with illustrations. Pale blue slipcase.