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Carroll's last major work: bizarre adventures of 2 young children, combining Carrollian nonsense, linguistic play and philosophical reflection. 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss.
Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.
As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.
The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.
The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.
Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).
Anonymous
Posted September 6, 2004
Better known by his psuedonym, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson wrote a great many things largely overlooked by the public. This was one of them, along with other things (written under his real name) like his books on mathematics and Euclid. Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded are two fantastic stories combining the usual Carroll nonsense with honest-to-goodness drama and even some reflective philosophical and theological ramblings. The two books absolutely destroy the Alice stories as art, but are probably not quite as well suited for children's reading.
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Posted September 24, 2001
Maybe Carroll's finest work... It is still directly like his Alice Stories... very strange book .. kind of post-modern but even before modernism.. i wonder if James Joyce ever read this... it somehow reminds Me of his And Pynchon's books... A Good story about two childrens adventures in separate and strange worlds .. does lose us in parts that are so open to interpretation that it could unfortunately Never Be As widely read as his famous work... being that some of what he is writing about has been lost with time.. but it is a must for any fan of great undiscovered work !
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Posted February 6, 2001
This work falls quite short of Carroll's other works. I would only recommend this to real die-hard Carroll fans who want to read the entire canon. Read 'The Hunting of the Snark' and 'Phantasmagoria' (and, of course, the Alice books) before you bother with this one.
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Carroll's last major work: bizarre adventures of 2 young children, combining Carrollian nonsense, linguistic play and philosophical reflection. 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss.
Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.