Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

by Jenny Uglow

Book Overview

A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow

Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374113335
• ISBN13: 9780374113339
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"