Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is the 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. In this story, Alice steps through a magical mirror into a strange, chessboard-like world where everything is reversed and filled with peculiar logic.The novel is structured like a giant chess game, with Alice progressing as a pawn toward the final goal of becoming a queen. Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it is filled with wordplay, absurd humor, and deep philosophical ideas about language, identity, and reality.