The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll; Oleg Lipchenko (Illustrator)

"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass." It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky." "The Hunt...