Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated)

Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated)

One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by Miss Alice Havers. I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone. The descriptions, at pp. 386, 387, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend. The Chapters, headed Fairy Sylvie and Brunos Revenge, are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for Aunt Judys Magazine, which she was then editing. It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story. As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to mewho knows how?with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their x source these random flashes of thoughtas being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the flint of ones own mind by the steel of a friends chance remarkbut they had also a way of their own, of occurring, propos of nothingspecimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, an effect without a cause. Such, for example, was the last line of The Hunting of the Snark, which came into my head (as I have already related in The Theatre for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this bookone, my Ladys remark, it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does, at p. 88; the other, Eric Lindons badinage about having been in domestic service, at p. 332. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 48630
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Release Date: Apr 2, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925