A Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear

Published December 1961
A collection including nonsense verses, tales in rhyme, and four fairy tales, relating the fate of naughty boys and girls.

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds’s young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat “for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows”,...Read more