The Hunting Of The Snark

By Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll from 1874 to 1876. The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all. The story is an allegory for the search for happiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lewis Carroll
• Release date: Jan 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9788892536845

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, in 1871. Considered a master of the genre of literary nonsense, he is renowned for his ingenious wordplay and sense of logic, and his highly original vision.

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The Hunting of the Snark

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Lewis Carroll

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Preface

Fit the First

The Landing

Fit the Second

The Bellman’s Speech

Fit the Third

The Baker’s Tale

Fit the fourth

The Hunting

Fit the Fifth

The Beaver’s Lesson

Fit the Sixth

The Barrister’s Dream

Fit the Seventh

The Banker’s Fate

Fit the Eighth

The Vanishing

Preface

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 (in p.4)

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History — I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.

The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances,