Mr Lear: A Life of art and Nonsense [Audiobook] download free by Jenny Uglow
- Listen audiobook: Mr Lear: A Life of art and Nonsense
- Author: Jenny Uglow
- Release date: 2017/4/13
- Publisher: FABER & FABER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780571269549
- Rating: 8.8 of 10
- Votes: 500
- Review by: Mireille Rhoades
- Review rating: 8.1 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/16
- Duration: 7H25M38S in 256 kbps (121.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, MPC, Vorbis, AAC, WAV, FLAC (compression RAR, TAR.Z, TZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 608
- Includes a PDF summary of 65 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 47M15S (13 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Acclaimed historian 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 Uglow's 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Biography: Arts & Entertainment, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Biography: Literary
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 35.10 USD
- Dimensions: 160x240x45mm
- Weight: 1,260g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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