Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense (2012)

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Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense (2012)
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Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense (2012)

Edward Lear
Edition year 2012
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Edward Lear
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 286
Dimensions 23.5 × 16.7 cm

Edition details

Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear. New binding. Introduced by Quentin Blake. Integrated illustrations by the author on every page, hand-coloured for this edition, taken from the first editions of Lear's five nonsense books (1846-1895). Full red cloth blocked with a design in gilt and black. Red endleaves. Plain yellow slipcase. 23.5x16.7cm. 286pp

About the book

Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense brings together his famous limericks, poems, songs and absurd literary creations. Lear delights in invented words, impossible creatures and comic situations governed by their own playful logic. Works such as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" demonstrate the musicality and imaginative freedom that made him one of the great masters of nonsense literature. Filled with limericks, strange characters, impossible situations and playful language, his poetry celebrates nonsense for its own sake while displaying remarkable verbal inventiveness. Lear's humorous drawings and verses helped establish the tradition of English literary nonsense and have entertained generations of both children and adults.

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