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Title: Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear ISBN: 0-460-04499-0 Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Pub. Date: 1980 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Nonsense!
Comment: This is a very well presented hardback containing the best of Edward Lear. Perhaps not as complete as Holbrook Jackson's Complete Edward Lear, it nevertheless contains his best work, including A Book Of Nonsense, Limericks, alphabets and his most well-known poems, The Dong With The Luminous Nose, The Quangle Wangle Quee, and The Jumblies. The author's quaint illustrations are well reproduced throughout.
The reason this book is so important to comedy is that the incluence on people like Spike Milligan, Beyond The Fringe, and of course Monty Python's Flying Circus is clear. Lear was obviously the 19th century precursor to those humourists. Lear brings an educated and intelligent angle to his humour just as his successors did, and his talent as a poet and artist make this collection much more than just a collection of 'nonsense'!
Rating: 5
Summary: So You Don't Get It
Comment: I can see why Stacy of California thinks this is a weird "incomprehendable" book. The word is "incomprehensible" Stacy. It takes a person of a proper old-fashioned education to appreciate this fine piece of classic literature. We oldsters don't get weird modern art either, or some of the wacky movies Hollywood gives awards to but no one can imagine why.
Rating: 5
Summary: Every child needs some nonsense
Comment: Edward Lear's nonsense is of the best. Read it aloud! Your kids will amaze you by how fast they can begin to recite along with you! If you remember "The Owl and the Pussycat" from your childhood, you owe it to yourself and your children to share it and "The Jumblies" with them.
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Title: Fables (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by AESOP ISBN: 0679417907 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 03 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes and Stories (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Randolph Caldecott, Knopf, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper ISBN: 0679444769 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear, Vivien Noakes ISBN: 0142002275 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses (Classics Illustrated) by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0877016089 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Gillian Avery, Thomas Bewick ISBN: 0679436340 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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