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Monday, March 13, 2017

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 58 – Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear (1871)

In 1863, he described himself as wanting to be a “Lord High Bosh and Nonsense Producer”, and tried through contacts to become a “Grand Peripatetic Ass and Bosh-producing Luminary” to the Greek Court, a scheme that came to nothing. The Victorians ...


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