The Annotated Hunting of the Snark (The Annotated Books)

About this book

The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literaturea companion to The Annotated Alice. "Its a Snark!"for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools Day in 1876 Lewis Carrolls 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 whoor whatthe 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 Carrolls many works. Included in this gorgeous two-color volume is an introduction by Adam Gopnik as well as Henry Holidays 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 Carrolls masterpiece in many decades.