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Lewis Carroll

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The Hunting of the Snark

4,316 words, approx. 15 pages

PREFACE If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in... Read more

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Lewis Carroll

8,291 words, approx. 28 pages

Biography EssayLewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in W... Read more

Lewis Carroll

785 words, approx. 3 pages

The English cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a noted mathematician ... Read more

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

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Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did no... Read more

Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll is actually a pseudonym, the pen name taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although best known for his children's books, Dodgson worked professionally as a mathematician, studying particul... Read more

Lewis Carroll

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an author, mathematician, teacher, and photographer who is described by Roger Lancelyn Green in Twentieth Century Children's Writers as "probably the most quoted author in... Read more

Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1... Read more

Lewis Carroll

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Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Char... Read more

Lewis Carroll

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Few writers of fantasy have managed to permeate their own cultures as did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician and amateur photographer who wrote children's books under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol... Read more

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Critical Essay by Michael Holquist

7,628 words, approx. 26 pages

In the following essay, Holquist examines The Hunting of the Snark as an experimental work that resists critics' attempts to interpret it as an allegory. The other project was a scheme for enti... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Sewell

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In the following excerpt, Sewell explores the themes of death and nothingness in The Hunting of the Snark and “Three Voices.” “Nonsense is how the English choose to take their Po&... Read more

Critical Essay by Harold Beaver

8,580 words, approx. 29 pages

In the following essay, Beaver explores the alleged connections between The Hunting of the Snark and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless... Read more

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