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The Limerickiad: Volume One: From Gilgamesh to Shakespeare
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The Limerickiad: Volume One: From Gilgamesh to Shakespeare Hardback - 2011

by Martin Rowson; Martin Rowson (Calligrapher)

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Witty, uproarious and tongue-in-cheek, over the past five years Martin Rowson's limericks and cartoons have retold the story of world literature, appearing each week in the Independent on Sunday. Now collected together for the first time, The Limerickiad takes us from Gilgamesh to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, showcasing the author's reverence for the original texts alongside a healthy dollop of hilarity and pure filth.

The Limerickiad promises to do for literature what the Punch/Methuen classic 1066 and All That did for history. Features 20 cartoons drawn especially for the book.

Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the Daily Mirror and many other publications. His books include graphic adaptations of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1990), Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (2010) and a forthcoming updated version of Gulliver's Travels. Among his other books are The Dog Allusion (2008), F*ck: The History of the World in 65 Incidents (2008) and Stuff (2008), a memoir longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize.

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  • Title The Limerickiad: Volume One: From Gilgamesh to Shakespeare
  • Author Martin Rowson; Martin Rowson (Calligrapher)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 125
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Smokestack Books, U.K.
  • Publication date 2011
  • ISBN 9780956814425 / 0956814425
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5 x 0.27 in (19.71 x 12.70 x 0.69 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature, Limericks
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011535720
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.92

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Middlesbrough. 2011. Smokestack Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780956814425. Illustrated by Martin Rowson. 125 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Limericks Anthology. DESCRIPTION - Every week for the last five years, award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been telling the story of World Literature in The Independent on Sunday. In limericks. With scrupulous regard to the rigours of the limerick form, Rowson has endeavoured to encapsulate humankind's fascination with the written word in all its forms, whether poetry, drama or prose - as a series of bad jokes, cheap puns, strained scansion, excruciatingly contrived rhymes and pure filth. Now collected together for the first time, The Limerickiad: Volume 1 takes us from the Sumerian classic Gilgamesh to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, with both verse and illustration displaying Rowson's reverence for the original texts. The Limerickiad promises to do for Literature what 1066 and All That did for History. inventory #46241
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