Lewis Carroll 4 hr 48 min read

Between the everyday world of Victorian England and the fairy realms of Outland and Elfland move two fairy children, Sylvie and her small brother Bruno, in a dreamlike double narrative.

Lewis Carroll's 1889 novel, his last major work, is an ambitious, strange fantasy interleaving fairy tale and social comedy, here with Harry Furniss's illustrations. Whimsical, philosophical, uniquely Carrollian. Read it for the odd late masterpiece of the author of Alice, nonsense verse, tender fairy children, and dreamy meditations, beautifully illustrated.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

4 hr 48 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Harry Furniss