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  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241251454
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

Nonsense



46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

'You elegant fowl!'

  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241251454
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

About the author

Edward Lear

Date: 2013-08-06
John Vernon Lord is an award-winning author-illustrator who has been working for nearly 50 years. He has illustrated many classic texts by Aesop, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, as well as his own stories, and he was also a distinguished lecturer and teacher of illustration for 45 years until his recent retirement.

Edward Lear (1812–1888) was an illustrator, natural history artist, and writer, though he is best known for his nonsense poems. His collection of poetry, A Book of Nonsense, was published in 1846 and helped to popularize the limerick, a humorous form of verse. His most famous poem, The Owl and the Pussycat, has been made into many picture books.

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