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A review by bookpossum
Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
2.0
This is an extraordinary book, and one clearly in need of a good editor. To combine a story about fairy children with discussions about religious practices, among other things, mixed in with a rather unconvincing love triangle .... Then there is the unbearable cuteness of ‘ickle Bruno, whose baby talk kept reminding me of Dorothy Parker’s review of A A Milne in her Constant Reader column: “Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
I believe the second part is slightly better, so I shall have a crack at it for the sake of completeness!
Edited to add: I unfairly missed out the two best things in the book. One is the Gardener’s poem, which I have read in a collection of Carroll’s verse. The other is the work of Harry Furniss, whose illustrations are lovely.
I believe the second part is slightly better, so I shall have a crack at it for the sake of completeness!
Edited to add: I unfairly missed out the two best things in the book. One is the Gardener’s poem, which I have read in a collection of Carroll’s verse. The other is the work of Harry Furniss, whose illustrations are lovely.