The drawings and texts presented in this volume, and form the most important part of his work and staff, represent both the culmination of his artistic experience and roots of it: a passion for the game and a waste of wit almost no precedent in the history of art. In his own words, "without leaning on another convention than a pleasure without limit, and warmly welcoming the emergence of a completely new absurdity. The nonsense, pure and absolute, then became my main goal. "

Lear limerick found in a vehicle both powerful and paradoxical turn, that led him effortlessly to the creation of a new architecture completely emotional and poetic life in the highest degree.

The volume you have a your hands together the two most popular books of Edward Lear (A Book of Nonsense and One Hundred Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures). More than two hundred limericks, always illustrated, along with a dozen hilarious rhymes and a botanical that has no waste.

This edition has a translation (which is both version and recreation) made in tandem, by Angel Maria Elvira Fernandez and Valgañón, who do not have private at any time to play with texts that, despite the years since its first edition, we continue inviting to tangle with reality.