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Standard Delivery: £2.99 (2-4 working days) Express Delivery: £4.99 (1-2 working days) If any items are missing from your delivery, please allow 2 working days for the rest of your order to arrive before contacting us at of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Items from our extended range section are dispatched separately. We sometimes split orders between multiple parcels. Please note orders are only processed Monday-Friday. The orders go into our warehouse to be picked, packed and consolidated into one parcel where appropriate. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with. Children who begged to have his verses read to them have grown up to read Lear to their own children - and to discover that his whimsy, imagination, and originality have their attraction for the adult mind as well.We aim to process and dispatch our orders within 24 hours. Get FREE shipping on Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear, from. It has been a hundred years since Edward Lear, the advocate of illogic, first became known to a wide public. Their influence has certainly been widespread, with echoes of Lear to be seen in the work of Thurber, Steinberg, Phil May, Bateman, and other artists and illustrators.

Many Lear enthusiasts maintain that in these drawings the Laureate of Nonsense gave rise to an entire new style. With masterful simplicity and apparent naiveté they tell of the dreamlike never-never land of childhood. In addition, you'll find three different sets of Nonsense Botany, five Nonsense Alphabets, and dozens of other selections in both prose and verse.Īll 546 of Lear's original illustrations are in this volume. You will meet such old favorites as 'The Dong With a Luminous Nose,' 'The Jumblies,' 'The Owl and the Pussycat,' 'The Nutcrackers and the Sugar Tongs,' and 'The History of the Seven Young Owls.' Two hundred and fourteen limericks are in here as well, each illustrated with the drawing Lear composed specially for it. No other low-price edition offers this complete collection. In a single volume you get 'A Book of Nonsense,' 'Nonsense Songs,' 'More Nonsense Songs,' 'Laughable Lyrics,' and 'Nonsense Songs and Stories. Here is every line of every nonsense book written by Edward Lear.

Complete nonsense by edward lear