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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

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Frontispiece: Alice and the White KnightThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“It was a glorious victory, wasn”t it?’ said the White Knight, as he came up panting. “I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.” “So you will [...]

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The black kitten with a ball of twineThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

The kitten has a ball of wool or a ball of string (“twine” in the text might be either, except that later it’s referred to as “worsted” and is thus wool.) But the black kitten had been finished with e [...]

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Alice talks to the KittenThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,” Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, “when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting y [...]

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Into the Looking Glass RoomThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

Keywords: people, mirrors, alice, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-24

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Alice pushes through the mirrorThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

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Added: 2007-03-31

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The Red Queen and the Red KingThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel – and here are t [...]

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Alice holds the White KingThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I’d far better help you, hadn’t I?’ B [...]

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The White Knight is Sliding Down the PokerThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which ca [...]

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The JabberwockyThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claw [...]

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Added: 2007-07-02

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Alice in the Garden of Live FlowersThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice (of Alice in Wonderland fame) is standing in the garden, where she is astonished to notice that the flowers (which have faces) can talk: This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border [...]

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The Red Queen chastises AliceThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Where do you come from?” said the Red Queen. “And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time.” Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as w [...]

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A Great Huge Game of ChessThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it f [...]

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The Queen kept crying ‘Faster! Faster!’Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she [...]

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In the TrainThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“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 [...]

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Rocking-Horse FlyThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“All right,” said the Gnat: “Half way up that bush, you’ll see a Rocking-horse-fly, if you look. It’s made entirely of wood, and gets about by swinging itself from branch to branch.” “What does it li [...]

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Added: 2009-09-06

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Snap-dragon flyThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“And there’s the Dragon-fly.” “Look on the branch above your head,” said the Gnat, “and there you’ll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head i [...]

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Bread-and-butter-flyThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Crawling at your feet,” said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), “you may observe a Bread-and-butter-fly. Its wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its he [...]

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Alice and the FawnThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn’t seem at all frightened. “Here then! Here then!” Alice said, as she held out her hand and tried to stroke i [...]

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Added: 2012-05-27

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Tweedledum and TweedledeeThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other’s neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had ‘Dum’ embroidered on his collar, and the other ‘Dee.’ ‘I s [...]

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