Sylvie and Bruno (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

University, St. Francis Xavier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440059667 ISBN 13: 9781440059667

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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Excerpt from Sylvie and Bruno

The Chapters, headed 'f airy Sylvie' and 'bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations,-of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.

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PREFACE. ONE little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by ' Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) 'wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone. The descriptions, at pp. 386, 387, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend. The Chapters, headed ' Fairy Sylvic ' and ' Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for ' Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing. It was in 1874, T believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story. As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me-who knows how?-with a transitory

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440059667
• ISBN 13: 9781440059667
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428