The Next Hundred Lears
The Next Hundred Lears

Author: John Arthur Nichol

Publisher: John Arthur Nichol

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0648905934

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Edward Lear is remembered, and rightly so, as the Father of the Limerick. Were it not for him, this little five line verse form may never have become such a beloved, ubiquitous part of our literary and popular culture. Yet the very thing that makes the limerick so appealing, held no appeal for Edward Lear. The final line of his verses offered no twist, and it didn’t seek to make his readers giggle. It was a summing up, and nothing more. But Lear had opened Victorian eyes to the possibilities inherent in the limerick: His Book of Nonsense was a runaway bestseller. In 1872 Lear published one hundred new limericks, hoping to repeat his earlier success. But while his earlier verses are still fondly remembered today, still anthologised, still quoted in mainstream and social media, his next hundred limericks are unknown. Why? Because, by 1872, the limerick had taken on a life of its own, and was romping towards the twentieth century with outlandish, irreverent and often obscene delight. And Lear couldn't follow. It just wasn't in his nature to go there. So having set the limerick on its journey, he now stood alone and watched it vanish in the distance. Limericks After Lear breathes new life into Edward Lear's creations. Book One, The Fifth Line, took A Book of Nonsense as its starting point and sent all 112 verses off in new directions. Now, Book Two retrieves the forgotten verses of 1872 and presents them complete: one hundred original Lears, plus a brand new, family-friendly limerick for each. The Next Hundred Lears ... Two hundred limericks you won’t have met before. And they might even make you giggle :)

Sascha Martin's Super Ball
Sascha Martin's Super Ball

Author: John Arthur Nichol

Publisher: John Arthur Nichol

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 0648905950

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Sascha Martin’s News Day. Mr Jack and Mrs Barnum are strangely upbeat, when they should be terrified. And kids are bouncing off the walls with excitement. Introducing his latest invention, Sascha has only this to say: “Don’t drop the Super Ball!” Why not? What happens if you drop it? Sascha’s not telling. And his nemesis, Mary-Alice Cooper, will do anything to uncover his secret. Could things get out of hand? They certainly could, and it wouldn’t take much to set the ball rolling. One small misstep for Sascha. Check. One giant leap for Mr Jack. Check. One girl who won’t take “Just be patient, Mary-Alice,” for an answer. Check. From John Arthur Nichol and Manuela Pentangelo, the team who brought you Sascha Martin’s Rocket-Ship and Sascha Martin’s Time Machine, comes the latest chortle-inducing catastrophe from the chain of disasters that is the Sascha Martin series. Sascha Martin’s Super Ball. His worst disaster yet, by leaps and bounds.

King Lear
King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1408143100

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'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the 'educated public'.'Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol 134

Even This I Get to Experience
Even This I Get to Experience

Author: Norman Lear

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0143127969

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The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.

Shakespeare and the Reason
Shakespeare and the Reason

Author: Terence Hawkes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136567976

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'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation.

The Fifth Line
The Fifth Line

Author: John Arthur Nichol

Publisher: John Arthur Nichol

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0648905918

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If you've ever longed for the Old Man of Cape Horn to cheer up, or to rescue the Person of Cromer from his sudden and unexplained conclusion, or to silence that annoying Old Man with a Bell, then this is the book you've been waiting for. The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear. One hundred and twelve brand new limericks based on Edward Lear's verses in his ground-breaking work, A Book of Nonsense (1846 and 1863). Plus Edward Lear's original verses. That's two hundred and twenty four limericks! But why the new new take on old poems? Because Edward Lear abandoned the most important part of the limerick - the fifth line - an ending that adds a twist to the story and makes us chuckle. Lear would establish a premise that was knowingly and joyfully absurd, then end with an anti-climax. His final line simply repeated the rhyme and substance of what he'd said at the start. The Fifth Line revisits every verse in A Book of Nonsense, restoring to each the proper form and function of a limerick. They're all here, from An Old Man With a Nose to A Young Lady Whose Bonnet, and everything in between. And there's a laugh in every one. The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear. Plus Lear. Plus laughs. Lots of laughs.