Scholars and dealers soon reported the existence of jackets on several 1890s titles by Stephen Crane, on Lewis Carroll’s 1876 book-length poem “The Hunting of the Snark” and on Dickens ...

Dodgson). In 1876, following the success of the Alice books, Carroll produced The Hunting of the Snark, a fantastical nonsense poem that follows the misbegotten voyage of a misfit crew of ...

Most people would immediately wonder: What’s a Snark? What’s a Boojum? In fact, 150 years later, we’re still wondering whenever we read or reread his great nonsense poem, “The Hunting of ...

In his nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark", Lewis Carroll ... Among his critics was Adam Sternbergh, a young snark practitioner reviewing the book for New York Magazine, who championed ...

Most of us – by which I mean those not in the exalted realm inhabited by JK Rowling and Dan Brown – find it ever harder to persuade publishers to give us an advance that will cover a few ...

Because that poor word has been just about ruint by The New Yorker's David Denby, who wrote a whole, inflated book (Snark ... in Wonderland but The Hunting of the Snark. Lewis Carroll is the ...