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Edward Lear (1812–1888)

Autor(a) de The Owl and the Pussycat (Jan Brett)

300+ Works 9,637 Membros 209 Reviews 13 Favorited

About the Author

Edward Lear was born in Holloway, England, to Jeremiah (a stockbroker) and Ann Lear, tutored at home by his sister, and briefly attended the Royal Academy schools. Both an author and an illustrator, he earned his living as an artist from the age of 15, mainly by doing landscapes. What he is mostrar mais remembered for is his nonsense books, especially his popularization of the limerick. Along with Lewis Carroll, he is considered to be the founder of nonsense poetry. In addition to his limericks, he created longer nonsense poems. The best---and best known---is The Jumblies, in which the title characters go to sea in a sieve; it is a brilliant, profound, silly, and sad expression of the need to leave the security of the known world and experience the wonder and danger of the unknown. His other most notable work is The Owl and the Pussy Cat, a less complex poem whose title characters also go to sea. Lear produced humorous alphabets and botany books as well. His wordplay, involving puns, neologisms, portmanteau words, and anticlimax, retains its vitality today and has influenced such contemporary writers of children's nonsense verse as Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Laura Richards (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Engraved by Andrew from a photograph taken in San Remo, by Roncarolo.

Obras de Edward Lear

A Was Once an Apple Pie (1992) 893 cópias
A Book of Nonsense (1846) 678 cópias
An Edward Lear Alphabet (1952) 248 cópias
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870) 232 cópias
The Quangle Wangle's Hat (1876) 220 cópias
The Jumblies (1968) 207 cópias
Nonsense Poems (1994) 128 cópias
Nonsense Songs (1907) 122 cópias
Edward Lears Nonsense Omnibus (1910) 122 cópias
The Scroobious Pip (1776) 101 cópias
Edward Lear's Nonsense Books (1960) 93 cópias
The Owl and the Pussycat (1991) 78 cópias
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1984) 45 cópias
The Pobble Who Has No Toes (1968) 42 cópias
Gorey x 3 (1953) — Autor — 41 cópias
Owls and Pussycats (1988) 39 cópias
Nonsense! (1998) 38 cópias
The Duck and the Kangaroo (2009) 28 cópias
Edward Lear : selected letters (1988) — Autor; Autor — 24 cópias
Teapots and Quails (1953) 24 cópias
The Owl and the Pussycat (2008) 22 cópias
ABC (1986) 21 cópias
The New Vestments (1970) 17 cópias
Il libro dei nonsense (1970) 17 cópias
Limericks (1965) 16 cópias
Of Pelicans and Pussycats (1990) 16 cópias
Whizz! (1973) 15 cópias
Nonsense Alphabets (1975) 15 cópias
A Book of Learned Nonsense (1987) 13 cópias
The Family of Parrots (1997) 13 cópias
Laughable Lyrics (2008) 12 cópias
The Cretan journal (1984) 12 cópias
Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse (1964) 11 cópias
More Nonsense (2008) 11 cópias
A Book of Lear (1939) 11 cópias
The Poetry of Edward Lear (2019) 11 cópias
Two Laughable Lyrics (1966) 9 cópias
Lear's Nonsense Verses (1967) 9 cópias
The Two Old Bachelors (1962) 8 cópias
Adeus, Ponta do Meu Nariz! (2002) 8 cópias
For Lovers of Cats (1978) 8 cópias
So Much Nonsense (2007) 6 cópias
Sämtliche Limericks. (1988) 5 cópias
Nonsense Book (1956) 4 cópias
Nonsense Alphabet Gb (1973) 4 cópias
Two famous nonsense stories (1973) 3 cópias
Edward Lear's Cats (2020) 3 cópias
Edward Lear's Tennyson (1988) 3 cópias
Fabuleario (1993) 3 cópias
Bosh and Nonsense (1982) 3 cópias
The Book of Nonsense (2015) 2 cópias
Edward Lear in Corsica (1966) 2 cópias
a book of limericks (2015) 2 cópias
El Omnibus, Sin Sentido (1972) 2 cópias
Calico Pie 2 cópias
bon appétit ! (2007) 2 cópias
Книги нонсенса (2001) 2 cópias
Disparatario (2002) 2 cópias
Kniga bez smysla (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
SEM CABEÇA NEM PÉ 1 exemplar(es)
Nonsense Books 1888 1 exemplar(es)
SEM CABEÇA E SEM PE 1 exemplar(es)
Sverchok na nosu (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
Книга чепухи 1 exemplar(es)
Phantastische Reise (1973) 1 exemplar(es)
Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Learicks 1 exemplar(es)
Nonsense Drolleries 1 exemplar(es)
O Livro dos Disparates 1 exemplar(es)
Limerickar (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
Libro dei nonsense, Il 1 exemplar(es)
LIMERICKS BY LEAR. 1 exemplar(es)
Owl and the Pussy Cat - Pop Up (1992) 1 exemplar(es)
Un livre a-sensé (2009) 1 exemplar(es)
A Bit of Nonsense (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
BUHO Y LA GATITA EL (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Lear Omnibus, The 1 exemplar(es)
The Owl and the Kitty Cat [Straw] (2006) 1 exemplar(es)
Lear Alphabet 1 exemplar(es)
Limericks; verses 1 exemplar(es)
Rhymes of nonsense : an alphabet (1968) 1 exemplar(es)
Edward Lear's Birds 1 exemplar(es)
De Uil en de Poes 1 exemplar(es)
Poèmes sans sens (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
Nonsense Verses (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Minette et le hibou 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Nonsense 1 exemplar(es)
The Birds of Edward Lear (1975) 1 exemplar(es)
NONSENSE SONGS. (1939) 1 exemplar(es)
Edward Lear's grumbuliske digte (1986) 1 exemplar(es)
Kringle Krangles hat 1 exemplar(es)
Favorite Funny Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Nonsense Songs (1965) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Eric Carle's Animals Animals (1989) — Contribuinte — 2,176 cópias
Favorite Poems of Childhood (1992) — Contribuinte — 817 cópias
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996)algumas edições623 cópias
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contribuinte — 545 cópias
A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems (1961) — Contribuinte — 524 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) — Contribuinte, algumas edições504 cópias
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contribuinte, algumas edições443 cópias
In the Nursery (1932) — Contribuinte — 286 cópias
The Lure of the Limerick (1964) — Ilustrador — 271 cópias
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contribuinte — 241 cópias
Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Contribuinte — 158 cópias
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2017) — Ilustrador — 154 cópias
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuinte — 140 cópias
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contribuinte — 118 cópias
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contribuinte — 114 cópias
Best in Children's Books 17 (1959) 76 cópias
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
Best in Children's Books 03 (1957) 68 cópias
Best in Children's Books 38 (1960) 66 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
The Nile: The Blue Nile & The White Nile (1966) — Artista da capa — 49 cópias
A Golden Land (1958) — Contribuinte; Ilustrador — 42 cópias
366 Goodnight Stories (1963) — Contribuinte — 37 cópias
A Book of Nonsense (1956) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Art for Children (Childcraft) (1954) — Ilustrador — 33 cópias
Journeys Through Bookland - Volume I (1909) — Autor, algumas edições30 cópias
A Book of Nonsense (1927) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Bright Red (1994) — Compositor — 15 cópias
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Graphic Classics: Canine/Feline Classics (2014) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1974 (1974) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Cats: Fifteen Complete Stories and Poems (1998) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Galaxy (1970) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Edward Lear (Holloway 1812-Sanremo 1888) — Fotógrafo — 1 exemplar(es)
Eureka: Poetry and criticism, March 1974, vol.6 no.3 (1974) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Eureka: Poetry and criticism, December 1974, vol.6 no.14 (1974) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

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Edward Lear almost never fails to put a smile on my face. Though, his recipes are rather vicious...

"When the paste is perfectly dry, but not before, proceed to beat the Pig violently, with the handle of a large broom. If he squeals, beat him again." - Quote from TO MAKE GOSKY PATTIES
 
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eurydactyl | outras 18 resenhas | Jul 20, 2023 |
A delightful book of nonsensical poems. Many will probably know of The Owl and the Pussy Cat, given that the poem was given beautiful illustrations by Jan Brett (although the illustrations in this book are lovely as well. The poems in the book have a wonderful singsong quality to them that makes them fun to read and I think would delight kids. The only issue is that the book does show its age some with depictions of POC. It's only one poem, but the depiction was a bit insensitive for my taste. Overall, most of the poems are fun to read and have a sense of adventure to them. An additional bonus is that you can read it for free on Project Gutenburg!… (mais)
 
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AvidLearner | outras 2 resenhas | Jul 4, 2023 |
It is the illustrations that make me love this version best.
 
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Eurekas | outras 6 resenhas | Apr 12, 2023 |
Many of the Limericks are fun, notably those featuring Birds,

but this is not a book for kids or sensitive adults = too much violence, Killing, death, and animal cruelty.
 
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m.belljackson | outras 18 resenhas | Oct 19, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
300
Also by
50
Membros
9,637
Popularidade
#2,486
Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
209
ISBNs
602
Idiomas
19
Favorito
13

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