Lady Muriel and the Earl discuss the weight of tea. Chapter 7: “The Baron’s Embassy”īruno and Sylvie and My Lady talk to the Baron about the military and then decide to take a walk and have a picnic in the gardens. Sylvia and Bruno, along with their dad who was made king of elfland, eat the local fruit. The Chancellor signs an agreement with my Lady who has given herself the title of Vice Wardeness. The chancellor and the sub-warden discuss the populace who are actually saying more bread-less taxes. The narrator reviews a letter written to him. Onboard a train, the narrator meets someone who looks like Sylvie. They are waiting for the Warden and seem to be screaming for less bread and more taxes. The Chancellor gets agitated at the roaring crowd outside his window. Preface and explanation of purpose behind the book. 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.

Sylvie and bruno by lewis carroll