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Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss.
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 fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's most famous children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.
Origin
Two chapters from the first volume, "Fairy Sylvie" and "Bruno's Revenge", originally appeared as short stories in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867. Some years later, in 1873, Carroll had the idea to use these as the core for a longer story. Much of the rest of the novel was compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue collected by Carroll over the years (which he called "litterature" in the introduction to the first volume).
Carroll initially intended for the novel to be published in one volume. However, due to its length, it was divided into two volumes.
Characters
- Sylvie
- Bruno
- nameless narrator
- Arthur
- Lady Muriel
- The Earl
- Mein Herr
- The Emperor
- The Emperess
- Uggug
- The Professor
- The Other Professor
- The Lord Chancellor
- Eric Lindon
References
External links
"Sylvie and Bruno"