I could go to him, by myself, well enough. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! Eric has returned.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. The narrator receives a letter from Lady Muriel. The Professor remembers about the Pig-Tale. He visits the old man sitting on the porch. The narrator takes a walk in the country lost in his memories. The Professor gives a lecture to the narrator about science. The year ends and Muriel and the narrator mourn the death of Arthur. The author shares a relevant newspaper clipping. Mein Herr finishes his song to thanks and compliments of the crowd. Chapter 15: “The Little Foxes”īruno continues his story. Mein Herr begins to sing and Tottles replies (and he means every word).

Main Herr talks to Sylvie and Bruno Chapter 12: “Fairy-Music” Sylvie and Bruno meet the young female pianist on the way to the drawing-room. Chapter 8: “In a Shady Place”Īrthur and the others get ready for the big party. Lady Muriel gets a visit from a German man. The narrator, Sylvie, and Bruno meet Willie’s wife. Chapter 5: “Matilda Jane”īruno tells a story to the farmer’s wife while the narrator and Sylvie meet up with the farmer’s children in the orchard. The narrator, Sylvie, and Bruno come upon Nero. The narrator and Arthur go for a walk and chat about Bazaars. She explains about her engagement to her cousin Eric and how it ended. The narrator spots Lady Muriel seated on a bench.

Later, the narrator walks through the gardens and imprisons an elf and discovers it to be Bruno. The narrator goes to his Club and meets up with an old friend. 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.Ĭarroll, L.

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. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. 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.

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