{"product_id":"2940015846348","title":"Sylvie and Bruno Concluded","description":"While preserving most of the elements of fantastic comedy that characterize Alice's adventures, \"Lewis Carroll\" made these later fairy-tales the expression of what he held to be right in conduct and religion. The ideas are more recondite, and, though the first object is entertainment, the didactic purpose is more pronounced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes all 46 Illustrations by Harry Furniss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the very characteristic preface to Lewis Carroll’s \"Sylvie and Bruno Concluded,\" it appears that only one person, and that a little child-for Mr. Carroll takes no count of reviewers--was acute enough to perceive that the first Sylvie and Bruno was unfinished, and its apparent conclusion veiled in some sort the promise of a sequel. This discerning child wrote-“We were so glad, when we came to the end of the book, to find that there was no ending-up, for that shows us that you are going to write a sequel.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe can readily imagine the delight of Lewis Carroll’s young correspondent in the sequel, though strictly speaking this second volume is no sequel at all. Both volumes are but parts of one romance, since they are alike based on the same psychical conception that inspires all that is absolutely delightful in the work—-the scenes, namely, in which the charming fairy-children, Sylvie and Bruno, appear, whether as fairies or as children. The existence of fairies being assumed, we have a kind of harmony of conditions between the “historian,\" as Lewis Carroll calls the narrator of the story, and the two fairy-children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe romance is set forth in definite scenes, although through all there runs a story with a set plan or plot with its human action, and the fairy elements and the human are mutual influences and react upon each other. Just as when “Pippa Passes” some virtuous influence goes from her, so do Bruno and Sylvie affect the various human beings with whom they are associated. It is through this dualism of trance conditions, in human and fairy alike, that the confines of the earthly and the fairy world appear indeterminable in the story, and the conception is carried out with remarkable skill in several scenes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt must be owned that the trance state of the “historian,\" in which alone fairies are visible to him, is sometimes very easily induced. Thus a daydream over a glowing fire evokes the diverting scenes of the Professor’s lecture, the wonderful Banquet, the exquisite song of the Pig-Tale and the other whimsical chapters, that are as dream-like in humor and fantasy as anything in Alice‘s Adventures. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe songs, again, recall the spirit of Carroll's first story, and the Professor is a creation of the first order. He is so delightful that we should be sorry to think we have done with him. But the “story” is finished, though Sylvie and Bruno may yet reappear, and finishes happily, as all fairy tales should, despite the apparent catastrophe suggested when we are little more than half through the volume. We must forgive the apprehensions raised by this seeming sorrowful end, if only to it we owe the sad chapter of “Fairy Music.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe illustrations by Harry Furniss are in the happiest vein, perfect in all respects, and admirable for invention, spirit, humor, and ingenuity. In short, these drawings are the best work in book-illustration that the artist has ever published.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069763830000,"sku":"2940015846348","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015846348_p0.jpg?v=1763625351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015846348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}