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Edward Lear : Book of Nonsense
'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had sampled Wilde's Intentions (1891).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Max Beerbohm Print: Book
Edward Lear : Nonsense Songs and Stories
'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom of Tess", were favorites, but he enjoyed reading all of them.'
