For example, from chapter 13: “All Fairies understand Doggee- that is, Dog-language” or, this lengthy passage from chapter 14: His view of the Good Folk can be both sentimental- and yet cautious and honest. However, it gives a very good idea of the image of fairies that Carroll harboured. This book is far less well-known than the two Alice adventures- and for good reason, as it really isn’t that good. Carroll is not really a writer of ‘fairy tales,’ however strange and fantastical his books may have been, but he did not neglect them entirely.įirstly, there is his follow-up to the Alice stories, Sylvie and Bruno (1889). In an earlier post, I discussed famous the youthful writings on pixies by Lewis Carroll, author of the ‘Alice’ stories. ‘Fairies & Nautilus,’ by Thomas, from Three Sunsets
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