The Hunting of the Snark
An Agony in Eight Fits
Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Mervyn Peake
A new edition of one of Carroll's most popular works in the classic illustrated version by Mervyn Peake author of the Gormenghast trilogy
"Mervyn Peake has a magic in his pen. He can annihilate the dimensions." (Charles Morgan, 1947) This is true of Peake's writing and his drawings, as these illustrations to Lewis Carroll's mock-heroic nonsense poem testify. Richly brought to life with some of Peake's most exquisite line drawings, The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is a brilliant marriage of two of the most inventive imaginations. Carroll claimed that the inspiration for The Hunting of the Snark sprang from 'one line of verse - one solitary line of verse - "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see"', that came to him one day in 1874 while he was out walking. To questions asking whether the poem was an allegory, or a political satire, or contained some hidden moral, he claimed to have 'but one answer, "I don't know!"' (The Theatre, 1887). This edition, re-originated from original artwork, includes a selection of Peake's working sketches never before published.
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About Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll (1832-98) is the renowned author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There (1871). Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), illustrator of this edition, was a novelist, playwright, painter, poet, illustrator, short story writer and designer of theatrical costumes. He is well known for his illustrations to such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Alice in Wonderland but is best remembered for his trilogy of novels: Titus Groan (1945), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959).
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