| Book of Nonsense Contributor(s): Lear, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1604446226 ISBN-13: 9781604446227 Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: 821.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.68 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud". His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a "runcible spoon" occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat, and is now found in many English dictionaries. |