The Annotated Hunting of the Snark

the long version

The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature—a companion to The Annotated Alice."It's a Snark!"…for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of Alice in Wonderland, invites readers along on a fictitious hunt to determine who—or what—the Snark actual