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A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Category: Humour
From the benighted 'Old man with a Beard' to the erudite 'Perpendicular Purple Polly', Edward Lear's world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. Pelicans and parrots, seals and rhinoceroses and other queer creatures cavorted gaily with Dongs and Pobbles, not to mention the Quangle-Wangles. ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Category: Gift
There was an old person of Ischia, whose conduct grew friskier and friskier;He danced hornpipes and jigs, and ate thousands of figs, That lively old person of Ischia.Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, originally published in 1845, is an exuberant collection of nonsense limericks, illustrated throughout w ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense (Alma Quirky Classics) by Edward Lear
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shookAt 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 illu ...Show more
A Selection of Nonsense Verse by Edward Lear
Category: Children's
`Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils' - Edward Lear Known as the father of the nonsense poem, Edward Lear paved the way for the likes of Lewis Carol's Alice and Wonderland, Dr Zeus and Roger McGough and is much to thank for the form's popularity. Gently mocking the ridiculousness of human behaviour an ...Show more
Classic Poems for Boys by G. K. Chesterton; Edward Lear; Robert Louis Stevenson; Anton Lesser (Read by); Roy McMillan (Read by); Benjamim Soames (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Naxos Junior Classics Ser.
This text comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's 'Casabianca' and John Keats's 'A Song About Myself', to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this is a collection to be ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
Category: Classic Fiction
'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures - from the Dong with a luminous nose to the Pobble who has no toe ...Show more
Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear by Jackson, Holbrook, Lear, Edward, Jackson, Holbrook, Lear
Category: Education | Series: Dover Humor Ser.
Here is every line of every nonsense book written by Edward Lear. In a single volume you get "A Book of Nonsense," "Nonsense Songs," "More Nonsense Songs," "Laughable Lyrics," and "Nonsense Songs and Stories. No other low-price edition offers this complete collection.You will meet such old favorites as ...Show more