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The Book of Nonsense

By Edward Lear

2019-12-05 01:41:12

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 184 ... Read more
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. Less

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File size24.334 KB
Print pages46
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-09-02
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781888297010
Author
Edward Lear (12 May 1812, Holloway – 29 January 1888, Sanremo) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and espec...

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