[Gutenberg 13646] • A Book of Nonsense
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- Authors
- Lear, Edward
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Tags
- limericks , children's literature , humour , childrens , nonsense verses , classics , english , humorous poetry , poetry
- ISBN
- 9780679417989
- Date
- 1846-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.60 MB
- Lang
- en
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.