Through the Looking-Glass

Chapter 7 So Alice got up and walked about—rather stiffly just at first, as she was afraid that the crown might come off: but she comforted herself with the thought that there was nobody to see her, ‘and if I really am a Queen,’ she said as she sat down again, ‘I shall be able […]

Chapter 6 After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers.

Chapter 5 Alice stood under a tree playing with a squirrel which was running helter-skelter. All of a sudden, she heard some footsteps.The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole

Chapter 4 Alice ran a little way into the wood and stopped under a large tree. She saw somebody’s shawl. She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner. In another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were

Chapter 3 Alice ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks.‘Tickets, please!’ said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage.‘Now then! Show

Chapter 2 Wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, Alice did what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.‘It’s no use talking about it,’ Alice said, looking up at the

Chapter 1 One day, Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the white kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till