Nonsense Books
by Edward Lear
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Chapters (55)
- NONSENSE BOOKS
- 1894.
- "HOW PLEASANT TO KNOW MR. LEAR!"
- INTRODUCTION.
- A Book of Nonsense
- 1894
- NONSENSE RHYMES AND PICTURES
- Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets.
- 1894
- NONSENSE SONGS.
- THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT.
- THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO.
- THE DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY.
- THE JUMBLIES.
- THE NUTCRACKERS AND THE SUGAR-TONGS.
- CALICO PIE.
- MR. AND MRS. SPIKKY SPARROW.
- THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS.
- THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR.
- NONSENSE STORIES.
- THE STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD.
- THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE.
- NONSENSE COOKERY.
- THREE RECEIPTS FOR DOMESTIC COOKERY.
- TO MAKE AN AMBLONGUS PIE.
- TO MAKE CRUMBOBBLIOUS CUTLETS.
- TO MAKE GOSKY PATTIES.
- NONSENSE BOTANY.
- NONSENSE ALPHABETS.
- More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.
- 1894
- INTRODUCTION.
- NONSENSE BOTANY.
- ONE HUNDRED NONSENSE PICTURES AND RHYMES.
- TWENTY-SIX NONSENSE RHYMES AND PICTURES.
- Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc.
- 1894
- LAUGHABLE LYRICS.
- THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE.
- THE TWO OLD BACHELORS.
- THE PELICAN CHORUS.
- THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BÒ.
- THE POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES.
- THE NEW VESTMENTS.
- MR. AND MRS. DISCOBBOLOS.
- THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT.
- THE CUMMERBUND. An Indian Poem.
- THE AKOND OF SWAT.
- NONSENSE BOTANY.
- NONSENSE ALPHABETS.
- Index
- An Index of First Lines
- An Index of Nonsense Alphabets by Edward Lear.
- An Index of Nonsense Botanies by Edward Lear.
- An Index of Nonsense Songs and Stories by Edward Lear.
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