The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear, Book One

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With his Book of Nonsense in 1846, Edward Lear kick-started the limerick on its journey through English literature. But he failed to appreciate the full power of the form, because he never understood the point of its final line.

The Fifth Line: Limericks After Lear recrafts every verse in A Book of Nonsense, applying the punch line to An Old Man With a Nose, A Young Lady Whose Bonnet, and everything in between.

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