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A Book of Nonsense

March 5, 2019 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781847497482
$15.00
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Description

"There was an Old Derry down Derry,
Who loved to see little folks merry;
So he made them a Book,
And with laughter they shook
At the fun of that Derry down Derry."


First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illustrations Edward Lear created to amuse the grandchildren of Lord Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, while he was staying with the family at Knowsley Hall.

Embodying Lear's passion for nonsense, the limericks, each accompanied by one of Lear's beguiling original illustrations, are fun, lyrical, lively and hilarious, and have enchanted children and adults since their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century.

About this Author

Edward Lear (1812-88) was an English painter and writer known primarily for his nonsense verse and for popularizing the limerick. His poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat' remains one of the nation's favourites. An intrepid traveller, Lear explored Syria, Egypt and India, among many other places. He published three volumes of bird and animal drawings, seven illustrated travel books and four books of nonsense.

ISBN: 9781847497482
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Quirky Classics
Pages: 128
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2019-03-05

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

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