The Hunting of the Snark

Resumen del libro

"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 children's authors of the past 150 years meet on the page. Remarkably, amid the success of Tove Jannson's Moomin books, her unique edition of "The Hunting of the Snark" was forgotten, and has been unavailable for over fifty years. Now, for the first time, these beautiful illustrations are matched with Lewis Carroll's original English text, so that readers can encounter this wonderful adventure afresh through the eyes of one of Europe's finest illustrators.

Biografía del autor

(Daresbury, 1832 - Guildford, 1898). Charles Lutwidge Dodgson era su verdadero nombre. A los 18 años ingresó en la Universidad de Oxford, en la que permaneció durante cerca de 50 años, y en la que obtuvo el grado de bachiller. Fue ordenado diácono de la Iglesia Anglicana y enseñó Matemáticas a tres generaciones de jóvenes estudiantes de Oxford y, lo que es más importante, escribió dos de las más deliciosas narraciones de la literatura universal: Alicia en el país de las maravillas y A través del espejo. Las Matemáticas fueron su pasión.