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The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse Edward Lear

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse By Edward Lear

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear


$16.49
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Summary

Edward Lear began writing nonsense verse as a sideline to amuse himself and his friends - he earned his living as a commercial artist and, at one point, was art master to Queen Victoria. This selection includes all Lear's nonsense verse, as well as several, less well-known limericks.

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse Summary

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear

Based on the first new edition of Edward Lear's verse to have appeared since 1947, The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse includes such classics as The Owl and the Pussycat, The Jumblies, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, hundreds of limericks and a vast selection of other verse. Lear's magical illustrations are reproduced throughout, as are severeal poems that have never previously been published.

About Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812-88) originally earned his living as a commercial artist. A skilled landscape painter and ornothological illustrator, he was art master to Queen Victoria for a time. His nonsense writing began as a sideline to amuse himself and his friend's children but soon made him a household name. Vivien Noakes is the leading authority on Lear; editor of his Selected Letters (1988) and the definitive biography, she also curated the Lear exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1985.

Additional information

GOR001237392
9780141010298
0141010290
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20021107
496
N/A
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