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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. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss.
Sylvie and Bruno, novel for children by Lewis Carroll, published in 1889. The work evolved from his short story “Bruno’s Revenge,” published in 1867 in Aunt Judy’s Magazine. With its sequel, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), it was his final work for children.
Sylvie and Bruno begins as an absurd but “intriguing” conspiracy story set in a fantasy medieval kingdom. It is a kingdom where the responsible leader packs up and leaves his family to face the treasonous yet incompetent conspiracy to take over the kingdom and install an ambitious sibling as Emperor in his brother’s stead.
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.
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“He should have said ‘child,’ not ‘childer’,” said Bruno. “Sylvie’s not a childer!” “He meant both of us,” said Sylvie. “No, he didn’t!” Bruno persisted. “’cause he said ‘bonnie’, oo know!” “Well, at any rate he looked at us both,” Sylvie maintained. “Well, then he must have seen we’re not both ...
“Hist!” her husband hastily interrupted her, as the door opened, and Sylvie and Bruno came in, with their arms twined lovingly round each other—Bruno sobbing convulsively, with his face hidden on his sister’s shoulder, and Sylvie more grave and quiet, but with tears streaming down her cheeks.
