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Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Author: Uglow, Jenny
Brand: Penguin Random House
Edition: Main
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 656
Release Date: 17-10-2019
Part Number: 51407211
Details: A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.
Edward Lear is well-loved for his 'nonsenses', from joyous limericks to great love songs, and for his wonderful natural history paintings, landscapes and travel writing. But although Lear belongs to the age of Darwin and Dickens, his genius for the absurd and his dazzling word-play make him a very modern spirit. He was also a man of great simplicity and charm - children loved him - yet his humour masked epilepsy, depression and loneliness. Jenny Uglow's beautifully illustrated biography brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships and restless travels. Above all it shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of disciplines and desires - an exile of the heart.
EAN: 9780571269556
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.9 inches
Languages: English
