Sylvie and Bruno

So, for my paper, I have decided to write about a lesser-known novel by Lewis Carroll entitled Sylvie and Bruno. A good deal of people professing to be Lewis Carroll "fans" have only read his most basic works (the Alice stories, for example, or The Hunting of the Snark) but have not even heard of this novel, as well as its successor, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. While these stories maintain the absurdity that his more famous works are known for, they also add in a factor of very interesting, and rather well-presented themes. Overall, this work is remarkably underrepresented.

"Sylvie...had knelt down, just as I was doing, and was trying to help the Beetle..."

On Facebook, the page for Sylvie and Bruno has a total of 442 likes. And this is out of millions of Facebook users. One of those likes is me.

On Twitter, there are a total of a few posts a month that are related to this book.

Blogspot users seem to write about this book no more than a few times a year.

The Google+ community seems to have never even heard of it at all.

The platform for this specific book is almost non-existent. It simply isn't known. However, the Lewis Carroll platform, and the Alice platform is huge, and has been for ages. The Facebook page for Lewis Carroll has a few hundred thousand likes. The Alice in Wonderland page has about 200.000 more likes, even, than the Lewis Carroll page.

Overall, this book is underrepresented and generally not as looked at as it should be. (Basically, I desperately want to trumpet it around the world and toss it in the general direction of people's faces.)