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    The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria: and Other Poems
    The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria: and Other Poems
    The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria: and Other Poems
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    The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria: and Other Poems

    Written by Lewis Carroll

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the famous Alice books also wrote many poems notably in the humorous and nonsense genres.

    "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits)" published in 1876 and possibly his best known and most accomplished verse is presented here together with another of his longer poems "Phantasmagoria" and "Melancholetta", "Sea Dirge", "Size and Tears" plus five poems from Alice: "Father William", "Humpty Dumpty's Song", "Jabberwocky", "The Lobster Quadrille", and "The Walrus and the Carpenter".

    Public Domain (P)2017 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781509461349
    The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria: and Other Poems
    Author

    Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), was the pen name of Oxford mathematician, logician, photographer, and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. At age twenty he received a studentship at Christ Church and was appointed a lecturer in mathematics. Though shy, Dodgson enjoyed creating delightful stories for children. His world-famous works include the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and the poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky.

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