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. 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 fairy tale 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.
SYLVIE AND BRUNO
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
HARRY FURNISS
PRICE THREE HALF-CROWNS
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1889
The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
London and Bungay.
Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Bowed to the earth with bitter woe,
Or laughing at some raree-show,
We flutter idly to and fro.
Man's little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.
CONTENTS.
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This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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