The Hunting of the Snark

By Lewis Carrol

"The last of the crew needs especial remark,   Though he looked an incredible dunce:He had just one idea—but, that one being 'Snark',   The good Bellman engaged him at once."'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) is a nonsense poem by 'Alice Adventures in Wonderland' author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal to all fans of Alice.-

• Language: English
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Oct 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9789176393611

Lewis Carrol

Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, 1832 - Guildford, 1898). Charles Lutwidge Dodgson era su verdadero nombre. A los 18 años ingresó en la Universidad de Oxford, en la que permaneció durante cerca de 50 años, y en la que obtuvo el grado de bachiller. Fue ordenado diácono de la Iglesia Anglicana y enseñó Matemáticas a tres generaciones de jóvenes estudiantes de Oxford y, lo que es más importante, escribió dos de las más deliciosas narraciones de la literatura universal: Alicia en el país de las maravillas y A través del espejo.Las Matemáticas fueron su pasión. También fue un notable fotógrafo, intentando recuperar, a través de este arte, la inocencia perdida (fotografió sobre todo a niñas, como Alice Liddell).

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Lewis Carrol

The Hunting of the Snark

SAGA Egmont

The Hunting of the Snark

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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, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time