In the preface to volume one, Carroll jokingly refers to the text as a work of " litterature " in order to describe the chaotic assortment of episodes and ideas from which the work took its shape (x). Sylvie and Bruno, together with its sequel, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), oscillates between a linear narrative and a disconnected series of episodes, a children's fairy story and an adult morality tale, and, as this chapter will examine, poetry and prose. Yet this exclamatory remark aptly summarises the formal and thematic characteristics of the novel itself. Dodgson-better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll- was referring to the text's delayed publication. In a journal entry written shortly before Sylvie and Bruno (1889) was published, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson described the novel's history as " one of perpetual oscillation! " (Diaries 8: 488).
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