A Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear

Overview

One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse. Now The Book of Nonsense is available once again from his original publishers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781729541272
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/28/2018
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.09(d)

About the Author

Edward Lear was born in London in 1812, the youngest of twenty-one children, and from the age of fifteen earned his living as an artist. He spent much of his life traveling, and was a noted landscape painter and naturalist of his day. He died in Italy in 1888.

Table of Contents

A book of Nonsense, Publisher's Note, Nonsense poems.

Editorial Reviews

A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the absurd.

Time Literary Supplement

His nonsense is not vacuity of sense: it is parody of sense, and that is the sense of it.” —T.S. Eliot

From the Publisher