Carroll frames the whole book as a game of chess, with Alice as a white pawn working her way to the eighth square and a crown, laid out move by move before the story even starts. The dedication poem that follows, about children who "fret to find our bedtime near," makes plain this was written to be read at exactly that hour.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
- CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house
- CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers
- CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects
- CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
- CHAPTER V. Wool and Water
- CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty
- CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn
- CHAPTER VIII. “It’s my own Invention”
- CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice
- CHAPTER XII. Which Dreamed it?
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