by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner
With The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll wrote a fantastic “Agony in eight fits“ that puzzles and fascinates audiences since 1876. Without going into too much detail: it is beautiful and I simply love it!This is the annotated edition which means, that there are more explanatory footnotes than act...
I just found out about this book through the British mystery series (Inspector)Lewis and am dying to read it!
Make sure your Snarks aren't Boojums.
hilarious!
[These notes were made in 1984. I read this in the 1980 Mayflower Press reprint edition of the 1876 original.:] A handsome little piece of nonsense, illustrated pleasantly by one Henry Holiday. It ends with that immortal line, "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." A whimsical but rather interestin...
Not this particular edition (which is cooler than the first one I read). I c9ollected various Carroll editions, so actually, I don't know which one I fell in love with first.
"You must read this book!" the Reviewer cried,As he searched for a suitable rhymeBut as long as he stole more than half of the wordsHe was sure he would get there in time.The rest of this review is in my book What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations
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