Other timeless characters such as Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, and of course the Jabberwocky, all battle it out over whether Alice will become the White Queen. On this playing field, where everything follows its own strange anti-logic, all the characters are mirrors of each other: from the White and Red Kings and Queens, down to little Tweedledum and Tweedledee. In the first book there were distortions in size, but in the second, time and space are out of whack - time runs backwards and forwards, and distances are great and small - and the mirror world has becomes a giant chess board. This time it's a snowy night, and Alice begins to wonder what the world beyond the mirror is like. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which takes place 6 months after Alice's trip down the rabbit hole.
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