Охота на Снарка. Пища для ума

Охота на Снарка. Пища для ума

Льюис Кэрролл

Эксклюзивная классика (АСТ)

Перед Льюисом Кэрроллом всегда преклонялись как перед автором дилогии «Алиса в Стране чудес» и «Алиса в Зазеркалье», в то время как все остальные его произведения оказались почти забыты. А ведь среди них – не только трогательные сказки для детей, но и немало блестящих произведений для взрослых!

Сборник «возвращает» читателю «взрослого Кэрролла» – автора непререкаемого шедевра британского поэтического юмора «Охота на Снарка» и изящных рассказов, остроумно пародирующих модные при жизни Кэрролла произведения в стиле романтизма, сентиментально-поучительные опусы «для юношества и «страшные» мистические истории.

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Льюис Кэрролл

Охота на Снарка. Пища для ума

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The Hunting of the Snark

An Agony in Eight Fits

Fit the First

The Landing

“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,

As he landed his crew with care;

Supporting each man on the top of the tide

By a finger entwined in his hair.

“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:

That alone should encourage the crew.

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:

What I tell you three times is true.”

The crew was complete: it included a Boots —

A maker of Bonnets and Hoods —

A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes —

And a Broker, to value their goods.

A Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense,

Might perhaps have won more than his share —

But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,

Had the whole of their cash in his care.

There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,

Or would sit making lace in the bow:

And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,

Though none of the sailors knew how.

There was one who was famed for the number of things

He forgot when he entered the ship:

His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,

And the clothes he had bought for the trip.

He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,

With his name painted clearly on each:

But, since he omitted to mention the fact,

They were all left behind on the beach.