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torian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present. He was a man in a hurry, running about on railroads from London to country estates and boarding steamships to Italy, Corfu, India and Palestine. He is still loved for his nonsenses, from startling, joyous limericks to great love songs like The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly in the age of Darwin and Dickens he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters his genius for the absurd and his dazzling word-play make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today. Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm: children adored him, yet his humour masked epilepsy, depression and loneliness. Jenny Uglows beautifully illustrated biography, full of the colour of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships and restless travels/ Above all it shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires an exile of the heart.

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Hardback

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English

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