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The Hunting of the Snark: An Edition Printed in the Nyctographic Square Alphabet Devised by Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark: An Edition Printed in the Nyctographic Square Alphabet Devised by Lewis Carroll

Carroll, Lewis
Holiday, Henry

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ISBN10: 178201330X
ISBN13: 9781782013303
Publisher: Evertype
Published: Jul 18 2024
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Hunting of the Snark was first published in 1876, eleven years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and four years after Through the Looking-Glass. It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to Through the Looking-Glass by its use of vocabulary from the poem Jabberwocky. The Hunting of the Snark is a strangely dark poem, and some critics believe that its themes-insanity and death-are rather too adult in nature for children's literature. We know, nonetheless, that Lewis Carroll intended the poem to be enjoyed by children: he dedicated the book in acrostic verse to his young friend Gertrude Chataway, and signed some 80 presentation copies to other young readers. Many of those inscriptions were in the form of an acrostic based upon the name of the child to whom the book was presented. Part of the pleasure of reading this book is in the inevitable musing about what it means. Its author, often asked to explain his work, invariably replies that he does not know. It is therefore open to readers of the poem to decide the question for themselves... The Deseret alphabet was developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was intended to help make learning to write English easier. This wasn't very successful, though the alphabet does have interesting phonemic features, as well as being a fascinating part of Mormon history. This edition of The Hunting of the Snark is written entirely in that same alphabet, with fonts specially designed by John H. Jenkins and Michael Everson.

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