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Name: The complete nonsense book
Author: Edward Lear

📘 The complete nonsense book by Edward Lear

Edward Lear and Lewis Caroll became the most representative authors of humorous nonsense poems in the nineteenth century. The complete nonsense book is a compilation of Lear's poetry; limeriks, alphabet rhymes and narrative poems. His verses' main characteristic is the absurd, each of his verses have grotesque drawings.

First publish date: 1912

Authors: Edward Lear

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