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The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (Penguin Classics)

By: Edward Lear
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0140424652
ISBN-13: 9780140424652
Released: 07 Sep 2006
RRP: £10.99
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Lear at his completest - By: John David Charles Hilton, 28 Apr 2005
An excellent & comprehenisive collection of Lear's verse & nonsense. Great fun to read. Illustrated throughout in Lear's own individual style this book has been well edited by Vivien Noakes, with detailed introcuctory material & a clear layout throughout. Why make do with a selection when you can get the complete thing?
This book deserves to be on every bookshelf - By: , 02 Nov 2001
This book is the product of a life studying Edward Lear & his works. Vivien Noakes is the undisputed expert in her field & much previously unpublished material is here. She always approaches her subject in a scholarly way, but her style is by no means dry & dusty. Lear is full of fun & Vivien Noakes's joy at Lear's sense of humour shines through on every page. Lears work is set out chronologicallly & this alllows one to see the development of his style. She has also devoted a section to notes on the work & this enhances one's enjoyment of Lear.

Vivien Noakes has edited what must be the most exciting book for Learophiles since Holbrook Jackson's collection in the late 1940s. This will surely become the standard collection of Lear's Verse & Nonsense & Vivien Noakes deserves fulsome praise for her achievement in editing such a wonderful book. Although most people know 'The Owl & The Pussy-Cat', Lear deserves to be far better known than he is for everything else he did.

Unfortunately this book is too big to be stuffed into a Christmas Stocking, but should be given to anyone, adult or child, with a sense of fun. Even a child who cannot read will take delight in Lears quirky illustrations, jolly caricatures of spherical chaps with spindly legs & wonderful pointy shoes, strange creatures such as the Scroobious Pip, & people that resemble birds or beetles. If this book were upon every bookshelf along with Shakespeare the world would be a far happier place.