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Sylvie and Bruno

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(1889)



Is all our Life, then but a dream

Seen faintly in the goldern 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.



In 1895, 30 years after publication of his masterpieces, Carroll attempted a comeback, producing a two-volume tale of the eponymous fairy siblings. 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 fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.


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Helllo here damnedtheone: Sylvie and bruno, is a truely story, i read i foun d a cup lover like theys. Could we make others real like true love and lot of greatins? Can we? God!!! We all can. Letīs make it real, for the play or for the live. Santi

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