Penguin Book of Limericks - Hardcover

E O Parrott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854710850 ISBN 13: 9781854710857

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1995

Synopsis

Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Eight hundred limericks are gathered here, and most of them will reduce the average reader to helpless, roll-on-the-floor laughter. A few are the work of literary greats (Twain, Kipling, Auden), but most were written by that poet of the people, Anon. Nothing is sacred in this collection, and the ratio of decent verse to indecent is about what one might expect. Or, as one of the limericks says, "God's plan made a hopeful beginning,/ But Man spoilt his chances by sinning;/ We trust that the story/ Will end in great glory,/ But at present the other side's winning." For public and academic libraries. David Kirby, English Dept., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1854710850
• ISBN 13: 9781854710857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304