Every week since 2006, the award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in The Independent on Sunday by reducing the work of some of the world s best-loved writers to a series of puerile and filthy limericks. Following the success of the first two volumes of The Limerickad The Limerickiad volume III lays waste to the literary greats of the nineteenth-century. Rowson mangles Melville, put the boot into the Bront s and defaces the complete works of Dickens. He even finds time to write a limerick in homage to its inventor .
Pages
114
Format
Hardcover
Release
November 14, 2013
ISBN 13
9780957574700
The Limerickiad: Volume III: From Byron to Baudelaire
Every week since 2006, the award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in The Independent on Sunday by reducing the work of some of the world s best-loved writers to a series of puerile and filthy limericks. Following the success of the first two volumes of The Limerickad The Limerickiad volume III lays waste to the literary greats of the nineteenth-century. Rowson mangles Melville, put the boot into the Bront s and defaces the complete works of Dickens. He even finds time to write a limerick in homage to its inventor .