Sylvie and Bruno

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Macmillan, 1889 - 400 Seiten
The Narrator tells of two worlds: Victorian England and the love of Arthur and Eric for Lady Muriel; and the fairyland of Dogland, Outland, and Elfland where brother and sister fairies' father is involved in a power struggle.
 

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Seite xxiii - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Seite 276 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 191 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.
Seite 118 - He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed: He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. 'Poor thing,
Seite 233 - There was a little man, And he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead ; He went to the brook, And saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head.
Seite 275 - Surely the Lord is in this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Seite 92 - He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the 'bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. "If this should stay to dine," he said, "There won't be much for us!
Seite 170 - He thought he saw a Garden-Door That opened with a key : He looked again, and found it was A Double Rule of Three : AA 353

Autoren-Profil (1889)

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.

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