Sylvie and Bruno is a novel written from 1867 by Lewis Carroll. Roman in which he explores just about all combinations of humor and nonsense while dealing with his favorite themes: logic and its paradoxes, the gap between signifiers and signifieds. Sylvie and Bruno is the third and last novel by Lewis Carroll, published in two volumes: Sylvie & Bruno in 1889; Sylvie & Bruno concluded in 1893. Two stories intersect: one centered on the fantasies of childhood and the other on the amorous or political intrigues. Situations and events follow one another in numerous processes of great originality:...

PREFACE. Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. "The Path of Roses" was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. "Only a Woman's Hair" was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. "After Three Days" was written after seeing Holman Hunt's...