Potential New Wye/Zembla and Victorian Britain/Fairyland echoes? While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.' I haven't yet read the novel(s), but the Wikipedia summary intrigues me: 'The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland.

Table of Contents / List of Illustrations.Epigraph (Carroll's poem beginning: 'Dreams, that elude the waker's frenzied grasp').The poem's opening line ''Is all our Life, then, but a dream?' echoes the final line in the 'Whichever Dreamed It?' poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass ('Life, what is it but a dream!')). Epigraph (Carroll's poem 'Is Life but A Dream'.Here's a quick overview of the novels' structure: I realise I may be looking in all the wrong places. I haven't seen any mention of Pale Fire's structural and thematic similarities with Carroll's later novel(s) Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). I'm aware of Nabokov's Russian translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and I've come across many references to the role of chess in Pale Fire and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Sylvie and bruno by lewis carroll