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The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
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Description for The Hunting of the Snark
Hardcover. Relates the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. Illustrator(s): Jansson, Tove. Num Pages: 64 pages, 18 black-and-white. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 125 x 11. Weight in Grams: 176.
The Hunting of the Snark relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its magical inhabitants, was commissioned to illustrate a Swedish edition of Lewis Carroll's miniature masterpiece. It proved an inspired choice, as the enigmatic charms of Jansson's illustrative style bring to life the beauty and strangeness of Carroll's tale. The minds of two of the greatest ... Read more
The Hunting of the Snark relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its magical inhabitants, was commissioned to illustrate a Swedish edition of Lewis Carroll's miniature masterpiece. It proved an inspired choice, as the enigmatic charms of Jansson's illustrative style bring to life the beauty and strangeness of Carroll's tale. The minds of two of the greatest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
176g
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854379566
SKU
V9781854379566
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Lewis Carroll
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is most famous for her much-loved Moomin characters, featured in one of the most successful children's book series of all time, which has been translated into over 40 languages.
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