Through the Looking-Glass (and What Alice Found There)

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Alice's Second Adventure:

Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty")-the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky," whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror. She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up.

Then the story follows with nice things like:

1. Flowers having the power of human speech.

2. Alice meeting the Red Queen, who has the ability to run at breathtaking speeds.

3. The Red Queen revealing to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offering to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match.

4. Alice meeting the fat twin brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

5. Alice next meeting with the White Queen.

5. Alice encounters Humpty Dumpty.

6. The White King, along with the Lion and the Unicorn.

7.White Knight rescuing Alice.

8. Alice crowned a Queen

9. Alice violently shakes the Red Queen and puts the Red King into checkmate.

And then, Alice suddenly awakes in her armchair to find herself holding the black kitten, whom she deduces to have been the Red Queen all along, with the white kitten having been the White Queen.

The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of the Tweedle brothers, that everything may have, in fact, been a dream of the Red King, and that Alice might herself be no more than a figment of his imagination.

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Main characters

Alice
Bandersnatch
Haigha (March Hare)
Hatta (The Hatter)
Humpty Dumpty
The Jabberwock
Jubjub bird
Red King
Red Queen
The Lion and the Unicorn
The Sheep
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
White King
White Knight
White Queen

Facts and Trivia:

1. The book has been adapted several times, in combination with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and as a stand-alone film or television special.

2. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings.