{"product_id":"the-limerickiad-volume-1-from-gilgamesh-to-shakespeare-the-limerickiad-from-gilgamesh-to-shakespeare-9780956814425","title":"The Limerickiad Volume 1 From Gilgamesh to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, 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 \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e. Now collected together for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Limerickiad\u003c\/i\u003e takes us from \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, showcasing the author''s reverence for the original texts alongside a healthy dollop of hilarity and pure filth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Limerickiad\u003c\/i\u003e promises to do for literature what the Punch\/Methuen classic \u003ci\u003e1066 and All That\u003c\/i\u003e did for history. Features 20 cartoons drawn especially for the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Rowson\u003c\/b\u003e is a multi-award winning cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDaily Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. His books include graphic adaptations of T.S. Eliot''s \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), Laurence Sterne''s \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and a forthcoming updated version of \u003ci\u003eGulliver''s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other books are \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Allusion\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eF*ck: The History of the World in 65 Incidents\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eStuff\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), a memoir longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smokestack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406565712215,"sku":"9780956814425","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-limerickiad-volume-1-from-gilgamesh-to-shakespeare-the-limerickiad-from-gilgamesh-to-shakespeare-9780956814425","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}