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Product Identifiers
PublisherEvertype
ISBN-101782011587
ISBN-139781782011583
eBay Product ID (ePID)15072741210
Product Key Features
Book TitleСнаркаловы - Прападаньне ў васьмі сіпевах (Sna : The Hunting of the Snark in Belarusian
Number of Pages116 Pages
LanguageBelorussian
Publication Year2024
TopicClassics, Fantasy / General
IllustratorHoliday, Henry, Yes
GenreFiction
AuthorLewis Carroll
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight5.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal821.8
Synopsis(The Hunting of the Snark) 1876 , '' . , . - , , ('' ) . , , , - , 80 . , , . '' . , , . , ... - "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 Hunting of the Snark" is a strangely dark poem, and some critics believe that its themes-insanity and death-are rather too adult in nature for children''s literature. We know, nonetheless, that Lewis Carroll intended the poem to be enjoyed by children: he dedicated the book in acrostic verse to his young friend Gertrude Chataway, and signed some 80 presentation copies to other young readers. Many of those inscriptions were in the form of an acrostic based upon the name of the child to whom the book was presented. Part of the pleasure of reading this book is in the inevitable musing about what it means. Its author, often asked to explain his work, invariably replies that he does not know. It is therefore open to readers of the poem to decide the question for themselves...