This facility provides a searchable version of the full text of The Hunting of the Snark accompanied by various analyses including a word concordance. The site also includes information about Henry Holiday’s illustrations and comprehensive listings of editions and illustrators from 1876 to the present date.

This facility was one of the early sections of Lewis Carroll Resources to be developed, being first made available around 2015. It is currently going through an overhaul which may mean some facilities change in functionality and location. As 2026 progresses the resource will become stable, more extensive and easier to use.

For more thorough descriptions and analyses of the editions and impressions published during Dodgson’s lifetime refer to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: A Bibliography of Works Published in His Lifetime by Charlie Lovett, published by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2024.

Further information about editions and reprints can be found in ‘The Listing of the Snark’ by Selwyn Goodacre in The Annotated Hunting of the Snark edited by Martin Gardner, published by W. W. Norton, 2006.

For further analysis of the poem and of Holiday’s illustrations visit Götz Kluge’s website (snrk.de)

To keep up-to-date with all the latest news relating to The Snark, visit the website of The Institute of Snarkology
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