Edward Lear: The life of a wanderer

by Vivien Noakes

Book Overview

The youngest but one of 21 children, Edward Lear had a constant struggle against ill-health, loneliness and depression throughout his life. This completely revised edition tell his story and includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006356087
• ISBN13: 9780006356080
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: FONTANA/ COLLIN
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wandering Englishman

Vivien Noakes Edward Lear is a wonderful, clear, and enjoyable book. Mr lear the twentieth of twenty-one brothers and sisters, starts out interesting and stays that way through out his well traveled life. Prolific as a writer and painter suffering with epilepsy, this biography gives you just enough of the places he traveled, his art, personel life, friends( he semed to have known everyone including Tennyson) to keep it balanced and give a good feel of Mr. Lear.