Sylvie & Bruno (Illustrated Edition)

'Sylvie and Bruno' and its sequel 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded' are children's novels written by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. The story 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.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was a pen name of an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.