Started: 6/28/06
Finished: 6/28/06
Pages: 126
Year: 1962
Grade: C
Genre: Poetry
Reason for reading: booksfree.com
Blurb (from back cover): "Ever since Lewis Carroll's nonsense epic appeared in 1876 readers have joined his ten-man Snark-hunting crew and pursued the search with great enthusiasm. What are they hunting for? What is the Snark? Numerous theories have been proposed, Carroll himself provides a helpful Preface to the poem and is recorded as having explained to one reader: 'In answer to your questions, 'What did you mean the Snark was?" will you tell your friend that I meant that the Snark was a Boojum. I trust that she and you will now feel quite satisfied and happy.'
"This edition, previously published as The Annotated Snark, reproduces the original illustrations by Henry Holiday, including the suppressed Boojum drawing, Martin Gardner provides an introduction, notes and bibliography, and an Appendix contains F. C. S. Schiller's 'Commentary on the Snark' and J. A. Lindon's 'Fit the Seven-and-a-Halfth.'"
Opinion: The illustrations were great-wish that there were more. I had problem with how the footnotes were done and seemed to overtake the actual poem. Any fan of Alice in Wonderland or other Carroll works would appreciate the silliness of this children's poem.
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