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The Hunting of the Snark

Collected in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / The Hunting of the Snark

The Hunting of the Snark

PoetryChildren's BooksFolklore
Pages
85
Published
1876
Language
English

Synopsis

Join the Bellman and his peculiar crew on a whimsical voyage to hunt a creature of pure nonsense – the Snark! This nonsensical poem follows their absurd journey filled with challenges and eccentric characters as they pursue their elusive quarry across the sea.

Prose complexity
1/10

Collected in

Book cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / The Hunting of the Snark
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / The Hunting of the Snark
Book cover of The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

Vibe

WhimsicalFunnyLightheartedSatirical
Quest

Genres

Children's Books Folklore Poetry Juvenile Comics

About the author

L
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), an English writer, poet, mathematician, logician and photographer, born at Daresbury, Cheshire. He lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), along with the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Under his own name he published work on mathematics and logic and devised word puzzles such as Doublets.

Characters

The BellmanProtagonist
All characters in The Hunting of the Snark