No More Learning

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Title: Nonsense Books

Author: Edward Lear

Release Date: October 8, 2004 [eBook #13650]

Language: English


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NONSENSE BOOKS

by

EDWARD LEAR

With all the Original Illustrations

1894







PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
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NONSENSE BOOKS

by

EDWARD LEAR

With all the Original Illustrations

1894







PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
The first _Book of Nonsense_ was published in 1846. Three other volumes,--
_Nonsense Songs, Stories, etc. _, published in 1871; _More Nonsense
Pictures, etc. _, in 1872; and _Laughable Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense,
etc. _, in 1877,--comprise all the "Nonsense Books" written by Mr. Lear.




"Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all books
yet produced is the _Book of Nonsense_, with its corollary
carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm.
I really don't know any author to whom I am half so
grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put
him first of my hundred authors. "

JOHN RUSKIN,

In the _List of the Best Hundred Authors_.



[Illustration: EDWARD LEAR. ENGRAVED BY ANDREW FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN
SAN REMO, BY RONCAROLO. ]



CONTENTS.

I. A BOOK OF NONSENSE.