{"product_id":"book-of-nonsense-containing-edward-edward-lear-9781604449389","title":"Book of Nonsense (Containing Edward Lear's complete Nonsense Rhymes, Songs, and Stories with the Original Pictures)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Lear\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a \"diaphanous doorscraper\". A \"blue Boss-Woss\" plunges into \"a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud\". His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a \"runcible spoon\" occurs in the closing lines of \u003cem\u003eThe Owl and the Pussycat\u003c\/em\u003e, and is now found in many English dictionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Lear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604449381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604449389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indoeuropeanpublishing.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Edward Lear","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979329241343,"sku":"9781604449389","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_114a887b-4565-4142-a4c3-6d50f19723d3.jpg?v=1683244982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-nonsense-containing-edward-edward-lear-9781604449389","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}