The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll in 1874 and published in 1876. Describing "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature", the work borrows in-part from Carroll's...
In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its magical inhabitants, illustrated a Swedish edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark . It proved an inspired choice, as the enigmatic charms of Jansson's illustrative style bring to life the beauty and strangeness...
It's a Snark!...for whatever else can it be? Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of Alice...
If--and the thing is wildly possible--the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line [...] "Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes." In view of this painful...
Lewis Carroll's magnificent nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark features an unlikely cast of characters drawn from the Jabberwocky in Through the Looking Glass. This beautiful edition has an introduction by Chris Riddell and features his artwork. The Hunting...
The Hunting of the Snark is the poem by the famous English writer Lewis Carroll. It is what is known as a nonsense poem, as opposed to Lewis', a notable mathematician, other works. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from...
A beautifully re-illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's unforgetable story: "the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconeivable creature." The master of nonsense, Lewis Carroll, re-illustrated in a fabulous new edition. A lovely gift book, and a delight...
'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap' Ever since Lewis Carroll's nonsense epic appeared in 1876 readers have joined his ten-man Snark-hunting...
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it...
In this illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, master wood engraver George A. Walker provides an uproarious reinterpretation of the classic poem as seen through the convex lens of contemporary American politics.
The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll's classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the reader on a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark. The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched in these brilliant new illustrations...
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony, in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll.This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context...
"If I had but the time and you had but the brain." - Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (1876) The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll in the same setting as his novel Through the Looking Glass (1871), the sequel to...