A Book of Nonsense: With Drawings and Poems - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

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9780720610598: A Book of Nonsense: With Drawings and Poems

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ISBN 10: 0720610591 ISBN 13: 9780720610598

Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd

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From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat , Peake''s nonsense verse can be enjoyed by young and old ali ke. This collection of writings and drawings has been select ed by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, and it introduces a whole ga llery of characters. '

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About the Author

Mervyn Peake was the author of The Glassblowers, Gormenghast, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, Shapes and Sounds, Titus Alone, and Titus Groan. He was awarded the W. H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950.

Review

'Peake deserves a place among the eccentrics of the English tradition alongside Sterne, Blake, Lear, Carroll and Belloc.' - TLS 'He can try on the strangest clothes without losing his own strange identity... a genuinely haunted imagination which stamps everything he wrote or drew.' - GUARDIAN

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