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Selected portions from Sylvie and Bruno in which two fairy children meet adventure in such places as Dogland.

First Facsimile edition of the 1926 publication. 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. The introductory poem contains a double acrostic on the name 'Isa Bowman', one of Carroll's child friends. The poem The Mad Gardener's Song, widely reprinted elsewhere, is the best-known part of the book. It was very poorly received and did not have many reprintings modern commentators note that it lacks much of Carroll's characteristic humour. The novel is not nearly as well known as the Alice books. However, due to its length, it was divided into two volumes, published in 18. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years (and which he called 'litterature' in the introduction to the first volume).Ĭarroll initially intended for the novel to be published in one volume. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use these as the core for a longer story.

Two short pieces, 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge', originally appeared in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867.

While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime.

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