<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 27 December 1871 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland </Td> </Tr> <P> Through the Looking - Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it . 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 . </P> <P> Chapter One--Looking - Glass House: 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 onto 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 . </P>

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