Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

By Lear, Edward

Book Id: WPLBN0002951322
Format Type:
File Size: 38.01 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
Author:	Lear, Edward
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children, Humor
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
Historic Publication Date:	1871
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Lear, B. E. (1871). Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the Owl and the Pussycat and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a small pipkin. Edward Lear was an English writer, poet, cat-lover, and illustrator (his watercolours are beautiful). This recording celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lear's birth. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Children, Humor