{"product_id":"the-limerickiad-volume-ii-from-donne-to-jane-austen-the-limerickiad-from-donne-to-jane-austen-9780956814494","title":"The Limerickiad Volume II From Donne to Jane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery week for the last six years in \u003cem\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been telling the story of world literature using illustrated limericks. Following the runaway success of the first volume of \u003cem\u003eThe Limerickiad\u003c\/em\u003e in 2011, Volume II takes the story from John Donne to Jane Austen. Yet again Rowson manages to lower the tone  poking fun at Jacobean Tragedy, mangling all twelve books of Paradise Lost, and ridiculing the Romantics'' flowery ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick the ''Extracts'' tab above for some sample illustrations from the book - we dare you not to chuckle!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Rowson\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning cartoonist whose work regularly appears in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e. His books include graphic adaptations of \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 1990) and \u003cem\u003eGulliver''s Travels\u003c\/em\u003e (Atlantic, 2012). Among his other books are \u003cem\u003eThe Dog Allusion\u003c\/em\u003e (Vintage, 2008), \u003cem\u003eF*ck: The History of the World in 65 Incidents\u003c\/em\u003e (Jonathan Cape, 2008) and \u003cem\u003eStuff\u003c\/em\u003e (Vintage, 2008), a memoir longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smokestack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406565908823,"sku":"9780956814494","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-limerickiad-volume-ii-from-donne-to-jane-austen-the-limerickiad-from-donne-to-jane-austen-9780956814494","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}