Ebook {Epub PDF} A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear

 · The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.doorway.ru Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense is great to dip into now and then but try reading more than a few There Was An Old Man limericks and you begin to feel queasy as if you have O.D'd on Syrup of Figs. It's not that Lear is anything but excellent; it is just that limericks are most efficacious taken in small doses/5(). Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense. There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved to see little folks merry; So he made them a book, and with laughter they shook at the fun of that Derry down Derry. The first edition was published by Thomas McLean on 10 February There were altogether seventy-two limericks in two volumes selling at 3 s 6 d each.

With all the Original Illustrations. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE: The first "Book of Nonsense" was published in Three other volumes,—"Nonsense Songs, Stories, etc.," published in ; "More Nonsense Pictures, etc.," in ; and "Laughable Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense, etc.," in ,—comprise all the "Nonsense Books" written by Mr. Lear. Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense A Selection of Lear's Best Limericks Illustrations Faithfully Reproducced in Colour from the Edition Edward Lear Published by J.M. Dent Son, London, Paperback. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Brand new Book. "There was an Old Derry down Derry,Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book,And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry."First published in under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illustrations Edward Lear.

EDWARD LEAR The Book of Nonsense Edward Lear 4. 1. There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!—. Edward Lear. A Book of Nonsense. [] There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'. There was a Young Lady of Ryde. 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 , stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment.