Lewis Carrolls major works include:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Bruno's Revenge (1867)
Phantasmagoria: And Other Poems (1869)
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)
The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
The Wasp in a Wig (1877)
A Tangled Tale (1885)
The Nursery Alice (1889)
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)
Three Sunsets: and Other Poems (1898)
For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale (1932)
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch (1932)
Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1965)
In Alice in Wonderland a seven year old girl named Alice follows a Rabbit down a hole. She is thrown into a backwards world where nothing makes sense. She must learn how to get through and get home without being caught by the Queen of Hearts. Along her journey she meets an interesting array of characters including the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, a Caterpillar, and the White Queen.
Sylvie and Bruno is more of a collection of thoughts and ideas thrown together into a story of sorts. The narrator of the book is never named, but you get the sense that it is just Lewis Carroll himself. It's written in a sort of opiate dream state where neither the reader nor he knows whether he's asleep or awake. It concerns these two young sprites, Sylvie and Bruno, from fairyland and a mysterious, beautiful woman named Muriel he's not sure exists. It's very Victorian, dark and whimsical at the same time. There is a pretty great Carolinian passage where he basically predicts the theory of relativity by suggesting a falling tea party. The story continues in Sylvie and Bruno's Concluded.
Sources:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/lewis-carroll/
http://www.tower.com/sylvie-bruno-lewis-carroll-paperback/wapi/115013515
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