Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll, 1871.
Alice climbs through the mirror over the fireplace into a world where everything runs backwards and the land is laid out like a chessboard. She meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight on her way to becoming a queen.
Public-domain text. First published in 1871; Lewis Carroll died in 1898, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.