Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Roger Lathbury (George Mason University)
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Sylvie and Bruno

and

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson (1832-1898), are two separate books mixing fantasy and fiction. Published in 1889 and 1893 by Macmillan (London), they were the author’s final literary works and, as he saw them, his most serious. Although they never achieved the popularity of

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

(1865),

Through the Looking-

Glass (1872), or

The Hunting of the Snark

(1876), the author wrote in a letter of January 1892 that he had “tried to put more real

thought

into [

Sylvie and Bruno

]” and took “a far deeper interest” in the work than in the “

Alice

books”.

The Sylvie and Bruno volumes are not like the author’s more famous creations, but similarities exist. Just as there are two volumes of

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Citation: Lathbury, Roger. "Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 December 2007; last revised 19 March 2024. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9729, accessed 04 December 2024.]

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