Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear

Overview

Edward Lear’s much celebrated book of nonsense is here reproduced with all the original pictures and verse and two autobiographical letters by the author. Children and adults alike will delight in the Limerick’s that here abound. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447481447
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	01/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888), was a British writer and artist, who created landscape paintings, nonsense verse, and the illustration of birds and reptiles. He was Queen Victoria's private drawing master and given a place in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. As a naturalist painter, his work is often compared to the bird paintings of Gould and Audubon, who both worked with Lear. As a writer, Lear's humorous alphabets and wordplay influenced such twentieth-century writers as Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Laura Richards.

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

'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John Ruskin

'A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the absurd.' - Times Literary Supplement

'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John Ruskin

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