Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss.
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 fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. ( Wikipedia)
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Keywords that describe the book: children, humour, fairys
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The images for this book are really important and in the narrative there are several references to the images at specific points. I have not included them, but am tempted to do so and ensure we supply a link to the images or even better, a downloadable file with the images in. Is this possible do you think.
I know we attached images to 'Alice in Wonderland'.
They are available through Wikimedia Commons and are out of copywrite etc.
The poem is so short I think your adding it to the start of chapter 1 is a good decision.
Would you mind sending me the link to the Alice in Wonderland project you were referring to. I'd like to take a closer look at it. I'm sure we can do something about linking to the artwork.
It's been a long day. I'll PL for you over the weekend.
linny wrote: ↑November 4th, 2020, 4:11 pm
The poem is so short I think your adding it to the start of chapter 1 is a good decision.
Would you mind sending me the link to the Alice in Wonderland project you were referring to. I'd like to take a closer look at it. I'm sure we can do something about linking to the artwork.
It's been a long day. I'll PL for you over the weekend.
This is the link to Alice in Wonderland.
It includes a link to the images.
Sure we can do that. Unless you can find all the illustrations in a single site I can scan the ones I have and upload to IA (Internet Archive). I have the 1884 edition so it's PD. Let me know.
linny wrote: ↑November 5th, 2020, 4:56 am
Sure we can do that. Unless you can find all the illustrations in a single site I can scan the ones I have and upload to IA (Internet Archive). I have the 1884 edition so it's PD. Let me know.
They are all on Wikipedia commons, but It would be best to get them into one file so they are easy to display in order.
That would be the best way to do it. I'll get them downloaded and ordered to a pdf file, ready for the end product.
Also answered another question. My intention is to do all Carroll's books and the maths ones I was struggling to work out how to illustrate. That is obviously the answer.
linny wrote: ↑November 5th, 2020, 4:56 am
Sure we can do that. Unless you can find all the illustrations in a single site I can scan the ones I have and upload to IA (Internet Archive). I have the 1884 edition so it's PD. Let me know.
They are all on Wikipedia commons, but It would be best to get them into one file so they are easy to display in order.
Sounds great. It if turns into a project bigger than you anticipated just let me know. I can easily (and fairly quickly) scan the illustrations to pdf from the PD edition I own.
