A Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear, Edward Lear (Illustrator)

Overview

The owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, are among the fey fauna and peculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear (20th child of a London stockbroker), whose Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679417989
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/03/1992
Series:	Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.82(d)
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

Edward Lear (1812—1888) was an illustrator, natural history artist, and writer, though he is best known for his nonsense poems. His collection of poetry, A BOOK OF NONSENSE, was published in 1846 and helped to popularize the limerick, a humorous form of verse. His most famous poem, THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, has been made into many picture books.

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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