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Edward Lear and My Father

Author : Barbara Whitehead
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149697820X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lear and My Father written by Barbara Whitehead and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is really my fathers book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lears first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

Edward Lear and My Father

Author : Barbara Whitehead
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496978196
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lear and My Father written by Barbara Whitehead and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is really my father's book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lear's first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

His Shoes Were Far Too Tight

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452126690
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book His Shoes Were Far Too Tight written by Edward Lear and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned author Daniel Pinkwater and best-selling poet and artist Calef Brown team up to champion the ridiculous! These endlessly fascinating and imaginative poems are as fresh and delightful today as they were when Edward Lear wrote them more than a hundred years ago—from "The Owl and the Pussycat" to "The Pobble Who Has No Toes." This charming book proves that, sometimes, there's nothing children need more than a healthy dose of nonsense!

Edward Lear

Author : Vivien Noakes
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750937443
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lear written by Vivien Noakes and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youngest but one of 21 children, Edward Lear had a constant struggle against ill-health, loneliness and depression throughout his life. This completely revised edition tell his story and includes new material on Lear's early life drawn from recently found letters.

The Owl and the Pussycat

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553378288
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Owl and the Pussycat written by Edward Lear and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.

History of Illustration

Author : Susan Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628927542
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book History of Illustration written by Susan Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 CHOICE Award "The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo!" David Brinley, University of Delaware, USA History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.

Nonsense Books

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Nonsense Books written by Edward Lear and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Lear began his career as an ornithological illustrator, becoming one of the first major artists to draw birds from living models. During this period he was employed to paint the birds from the private menagerie owned by Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby and one of Lear’s closest friends. In 1837, Lear’s health started to decline. His deteriorating eyesight and failing lungs forced him to abandon the detailed painting required for depicting birds, and, with the help of the earl, he moved to Rome where he established himself as a poet of literary nonsense. While Lear was visiting the Earl of Derby, he wrote poems and drew silly sketches to entertain the earl’s children. In 1846, he collected together his pile of limericks and illustrations and published his first poetical book, titled A Book of Nonsense and dedicated to the Earl of Derby and his children. He decided to publish under the pseudonym Derry down Derry, but after he started making plans for more books, he republished under his real name. His next book, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets wasn’t published until 24 years later, in 1870. Lear then released More Nonsense, which contains more limericks, in 1872, and Laughable Lyrics in 1877. This final book in the series contains many of Lear’s most famous fantastical creatures, such as the Quangle Wangle. The influence of Lear’s poetry in the twentieth-century can be seen in styles like the surrealism movement and the theater of the absurd.

Inventing Edward Lear

Author : Sara Lodge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971159
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Edward Lear written by Sara Lodge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Lear—the father of nonsense—wrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of the era’s most influential creative figures.

Nonsense Poems

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486310612
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Nonsense Poems written by Edward Lear and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 90 delightful limericks and 12 longer poems, including such classics as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," "The Jumblies," and "Calico Pie," all accompanied by Lear's amusing illustrations.

Even This I Get to Experience

Author : Norman Lear
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127969
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Even This I Get to Experience written by Norman Lear and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.

Mr. Lear

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828234
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Lear written by Jenny Uglow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, “I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present.” He was a man in a hurry, “running about on railroads” from London to country estates and boarding steamships to Italy, Corfu, India, and Palestine. He is still loved for his “nonsenses,” from startling, joyous limericks to great love poems like “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose,” and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickens—he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters—his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today. Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm—children adored him—yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. Jenny Uglow’s beautifully illustrated biography, full of the color of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships, and restless travels. Above all, Mr. Lear shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires—an exile of the heart.

Edward Lear

Author : Peter Levi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722999
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lear written by Peter Levi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." - W.H. Auden Edward Lear - beloved nonsense poet, author of such adored poems as The Owl and the Pussycat, inventor of otherworldly characters like Quangle-Wangles and of the modern limerick; lauded artist and illustrator - was a genius who defies classification. Gregarious and popular, Lear had a wide circle of friends, but was often lonely and subject to frequent bouts of depression and debilitating epilepsy, the shame of which he struggled with all his life. In this captivating biography, fellow poet Peter Levi renders descriptions of Lear's sketches and watercolours (of which he painted some 10,000 in the course of his career) and provides incisive portraits of his classic poems, such as The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussycat and The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, setting them in the wider context of traditional nursery rhymes. Lear belonged to the great tradition of adventurous British travellers, undertaking extensive journeys in Italy and Greece, in Albania, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and India and these always-eventful journeys are related here, alongside extracts and quotations from his letters and diaries. This is an essential biography for all lovers of this remarkable British literary figure and now recognised as one of the greatest 19th century landscape painters.

A Book of Nonsense

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Nonsense written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.

'How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!'

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899644254
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book 'How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!' written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the following nonsense verses: How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, The Jumblies, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and The Scroobious Pip.

My Father's Daughter

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522857477
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book My Father's Daughter written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter. My Father's Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian.

The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition

Author : Robert McCracken Peck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217238
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition written by Robert McCracken Peck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Lear is well known as the brilliant writer of nonsense poetry, children's books, and travel books who popularized the limerick, and wrote verses such as "The Owl and the Pussycat." But few people are aware that Lear was one of the most talented and accomplished painters of natural history subjects in the nineteenth century, and worked with British scientists, collectors, and publishers to make Britain the nexus for scientific investigation and its circulation. One of the best ornithological artists of his generation, Lear published his first book, a monograph on the parrot family, at age 18, and established a format that would be followed by decades by such publishers as John Gould, with whom he worked closely and often anonymously. Over his career, Lear produced a multitude of drawings of birds and mammals from around the world for scientific publications, public institutions, and individual patrons, not just of English species, but of birds and mammals from Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas. He is also the Lear in the name of the rare species Lear's Macaw. In this book, Peck has assembled the first comprehensive view of this important part of Lear's career. Featuring over 200 illustrations and a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, the book also examines the influence Lear had on modern artists such as Walton Ford and Tony Foster. This new edition includes a new chapter that addresses Lear's continued fascination with wildlife and the natural world after giving up his career as a scientific illustrator, and his fascination with domestic pets, from his own beloved cat which he cartooned repeatedly, to the portraits of dogs owned by his family and friends, alongside thirteen never-before-published illustrations, including fully finished watercolors, rough preliminary sketches, and whimsical cartoons"--

Moon Pops

Author : Heena Baek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771474290
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Moon Pops written by Heena Baek and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, weird, and wonderful spin on a classic Korean folktale, the first book to be published in English by internationally acclaimed Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Heena Baek One sweltering summer night, while the many residents of one apartment building are struggling to fall asleep, the moon begins to melt. Granny hears it dripping and runs out to catch the moon drops in a bucket. At first unsure what do with the drops, she is soon inspired to turn them into popsicles--moon pops!--to help cool down her neighbors. But as everyone drifts off to sleep, a new problem arises. The fabled rabbits who, according to folklore live on the moon, have lost their home! With the last of the moon drops, Granny grows a new moon from the potted plant in her window. As the moon ascends to the starry sky above, the rabbits return to their home, and Granny returns to her bed. Illustrated in otherworldly mixed-media 3D shoebox dioramas that use unique and exquisite collage art, this quirky and colorful picture book spins a new story from the common East Asian fable of the rabbit in the moon.