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Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense: With Lear's Original Illustrations by Edward Lear, Simcha Shtull
ederwin's review
4.0
I cannot stress enough how horrible the limericks are. They often have extra syllables that mess up the rhythm, and often rhyme only because they repeat words. However, they, like all the other poems and stories, are accompanied by the authors own entertaining sketches, so I can almost forgive them.
The other songs and stories are wonderful enough that I'll just ignore the limericks.
Content warnings:
* Inter-species marriage.
* A husband refers to his wife as "Oh lovely Pussy, oh Pussy my love, what a wonderful Pussy you are..."
* A very nice rhinoceros is killed and stuffed just so he can be used as a "diaphanous door-scraper".
Many different collections are currently lumped together by the goodreads librarians. They'll probably never be fully straitened out. Here is the contents of the version I read:
The Book of Nonsense - Horrible limericks.
Nonsense Songs and Stories - Wonderful poems and one story (The four little children who went around the world).
100 Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes - More horrible limericks.
An Alphabet - An OK way to teach kids the alphabet, and words like Dolomphious and Runcible.
"How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear" - An OK poem.
The other songs and stories are wonderful enough that I'll just ignore the limericks.
Content warnings:
* Inter-species marriage.
* A husband refers to his wife as "Oh lovely Pussy, oh Pussy my love, what a wonderful Pussy you are..."
* A very nice rhinoceros is killed and stuffed just so he can be used as a "diaphanous door-scraper".
Many different collections are currently lumped together by the goodreads librarians. They'll probably never be fully straitened out. Here is the contents of the version I read:
The Book of Nonsense - Horrible limericks.
Nonsense Songs and Stories - Wonderful poems and one story (The four little children who went around the world).
100 Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes - More horrible limericks.
An Alphabet - An OK way to teach kids the alphabet, and words like Dolomphious and Runcible.
"How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear" - An OK poem.
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