- Hardcover: 30 pages
- Publisher: Catalpa Press Ltd (February 1975)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0904995011
- ISBN-13: 978-0904995015
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Although this permanent favorite is in innumerable anthologies, this is the only separate edition prepared especially for a juvenile audience. Mr. Oechsli knows exactly how to draw an uffish expression and catches the demented determination of the hunters in full galumph. It's the best sort of cartooning, with the same care for detail and color that you can find in Bill Peet's books. "...the Snark is at hand...'Tis your glorious duty to seek it." (Kirkus Reviews)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Lewis Carroll is known for his delightful children's tales. He is perhaps best known for his classics, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. This humorous poem tells the tale of an impossible voyage for an improbable crew hunting an imaginary creature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek:",
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This review is from: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (Paperback)
This is a great nonsensical tale that probably will need an annotated version to make sense. Not of the purpose as that is in the title. But of the few words that are real but archaic. In any sense this is a fun read. I want to believe it holds some profound secret other than just a play on words."They sought it with Thimbles, they sot it with care; They threatened its life with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap." You will want to re-read "The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits" (1876) and see with other allegorical nonsense you missed. The Annotated Hunting of the Snark (The Annotated Books)
5.0 out of 5 stars
"A Perfect and Absolute Blank!",
By cameron-vale "cameron-vale" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Penguin Classics Hunting Of The Snark (Mass Market Paperback)
This edition of Lewis Carroll's hilarious and haunting nonsense poem was originally published as THE ANNOTATED SNARK in 1962. Featuring Henry Holiday's original 1876 illustrations and a plethora of critical supplementary material, this is certainly the best edition of the poem currently available. Martin Gardner, who is perhaps best known for his ANNOTATED ALICE books, provides copious informative notes, many of them intended tongue in cheek, that explicate the myriad mysteries of Carroll's enigmatic sea voyage. Particularly noteworthy is Gardner's inclusion, as an appendix, of A COMMENTARY ON THE SNARK, a wonderfully loony "explanatory" essay by one Snarkophilus Snobbs that manages to brilliantly parody and demolish any attempt to provide solemn scholarly commentary on Carroll's silly but strangely disturbing work. Nonetheless, in his introduction, Gardner takes the time to offer brief descriptions of some of the more notable serious attempts to "force the whole of the SNARK into one overall metaphorical pattern." We'll never know exactly what was going through Carroll's mind when he created this epic journey--especially since the author himself claimed that the poem was devoid of any meaning--but the many efforts to explain it away are often ingenious and entertaining.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ahead of his time,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics Hunting Of The Snark (Mass Market Paperback)
Lewis Carroll is brilliant in this piece. First of all the poetical music is perfect, absolutely perfect, and yet the words don't mean much. Many of these words are not even to be found in any dictionary. Be it only for the music, this piece is astonishingly good. But the piece has a meaning. I will not enter the numerical value of the numbers used in the poem : 3, 42, 6, 7, 20, 10, 992, 8, and I am inclined to say etc because some are more or less hidden here and there in the lines. Hunting for these numbers is like hunting for the snark, an illusion. But the general meaning of the poem is a great allegory to social and political life. A society, any society gives itself an aim, a target, a purpose and everyone is running after it without even knowing what it is. What is important in society is not what you are running after or striving for, but only the running and the striving. Lewis Carroll is thus extremely modern in this total lack of illusions about society, social life and politics : just wave a flag of any kind, or anything that can be used as a flag and can be waved, in front of the noses of people and they will run after it or run in the direction it indicates. They love roadsigns and social life is a set of roadsigns telling you where to go. Everyone goes there, except of course the roadsigns themselves who never go in the direction they indicate. Lewis Carroll is thus the first post-modern poet of the twenty-first century. He just lived a little bit too early.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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