: Alice enters the game as a White Pawn . Her goal is to travel across the "squares" of the landscape to the Eighth Square, where she will be crowned Queen.

The 1871 novel by Lewis Carroll is a masterwork of literary nonsense and a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . While the first book uses a deck of cards as its structural motif, the sequel is built entirely around a giant game of chess . Core Narrative: The Chessboard World

Unlike the warm May afternoon of the first book, this story begins on a snowy November night. Alice steps through a mirror above her fireplace into "Looking-Glass House," a world where everything is reversed—books are written backwards, and you must walk away from a destination to reach it.