Wonder

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

A crew of ten, every one of them named with a B, sails off with a map that is a perfect and absolute blank to hunt a creature that must on no account turn out to be a Boojum. Carroll called it an agony in eight fits. Readers have called it nonsense, allegory and prophecy, and have argued about the ending ever since.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 20 minutes

Where to find it

The Evening Room; The English Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #13. In the public domain in the United States.