Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

This sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' follows Alice as she steps through a mirror into a fantastical world on the other side. There, she encounters a variety of peculiar characters and finds herself in a chess-themed adventure, aiming to become a queen. Along the way, she navigates a landscape filled with poetry, strange creatures, and mind-bending paradoxes. In 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a somewhat shy and stuttering mathematician from Oxford, invented the story of a little girl who falls into a rabbit hole, thus launching the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Many scholars continue to earn their living by deducing the charm formula of Alice's books, deciphering eccentric characters, and revealing hidden meanings that even Dodgson himself was unaware of. However, Alice remains nothing but a fairy tale with all the inherent qualities of a fairy tale, that is paradoxical, real, fantastic, captivating, and endearing, which only opens up to us when we shrink like children, as it was suggested to us about two thousand years ago.