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Nonsense

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241251447

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 5mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 53g

  • RRP: £2.00

Nonsense

'You elegant fowl!'

Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241251447

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 5mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 53g

  • RRP: £2.00

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About the Author

Edward Lear

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

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