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"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 in Wonderland," invites readers along on a fictitious hunt to determine who or what the Snark actually is. More than 130 years later, the indomitable Martin Gardner returns to the Snark with a trove of new annotations and illustrations, uncovering some of the most confounding literary, linguistic, and mathematical references embedded in any of Lewis Carroll's many works. Included in this gorgeous, two-color volume is an introduction by Adam Gopnik, as well as Henry Holiday's distinctive, original illustrations, a substantial bibliography, and a suppressed drawing of the infamous Boojum. With a host of other Snark resources, this is the most ambitious work on Lewis Carroll's masterpiece in many decades."
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- ISBN: 9780393062427
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.44 x 0.82
- Number Of Pages: 192
- Publication Year: 2006
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What I Tell You Three Times in True...
Bryan D. - 5 years 6 months agoThis has got to be in my top ten list of books I'm mad no one told me about. I'm a life-long Alice fan, but somehow no one, no librarian, no school teacher, no one... ever clued me in to Lewis Carroll's other, denser, more complex and more adult epic nonsense poem. From the Baker who can't remember his own name (and by extension, can't remember his allegedly-beloved uncle's name, since he was named after his uncle), to a pig charged in a court of law with deserting its sty (in answer to which charge the pig as a perfect alibi... a legal term meaning the accused is innocent because they were... somewhere else...) this book contains not only the insane and disturbing tale of the seven (or are there only six?) sailing men (or is one of them a woman?) who venture forth using impossible means of navigation (the bell method requires two boats, but they have one) and an impossible map (it shows only the ocean! Not a speck of land on it!) by also detailed explanations of Carroll's world and just what the jokes mean or could possibly mean. A book to be savored again and again.
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