In His Own Write

by John Lennon, Yoko Ono (Introduction)

Overview

AN OMNIBUS EDITION OF JOHN LENNON’ S WHIMSICAL POETRY, PROSE, AND DRAWINGS, REISSUED IN CELEBRATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451625271
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/05/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Best known as singer-songwriter for the legendary Beatles, John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. In 1969, Lennon married Yoko Ono and the two formed the Plastic Ono Band. Lennon died in New York on December 8, 1980.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Partly Dave

No Flies on Frank

Good Dog Nigel

At the Denis

The Fat Growth on Eric Hearble

The Wrestling Dog

Randolf's Party

The Famous Five through Woenow Abbey

Sad Michael

I Wandered

A Letter

Scene three Act one

Treasure Ivan

All Abord Speeching

The Fingletoad Resort of Teddiviscious

Alec Speaking

Liddypool

You Might Well Arsk

Nicely Nicely Clive

Neville Club The Moldy Moldy Man

*On Safairy with Whide Hunter

I Sat Belonely Henry and Harry Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and me)

A Suprise for Little Bobby

Halbut Returb

Unhappy Frank

On this Churly Morn

Victor Triumphs Again and Mrs. Weatherby Learns a Lesson

I Remember Arnold

*Written in conjugal with Paul.

Editorial Reviews

Lennon's marvellously clever In His Own Write was the surprise literary sensation of 1964 . . . you get Lennon's biting humour and brilliant puns: Lewis Carroll as rock star

TAMPA TRIBUNE

Irresistible . . . the drawings are marvellous

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

It owes something to Edward Lear's nonsense books, but from there on in Lennon is on his own . . . Zany, offbeat, and illustrated by his grotesque spidery pen. It jolts the reader into gusts of laughter

GUARDIAN

In His Own Write features the same sort of surreal turns of phrase that insinuated themselves into late-period Beatles classics such as ‘Come Together’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever.’”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Worth the attention of anyone who fears for the impoverishment of the English language and the British imagination.”

—The Times Literary Supplement

“[Features] a wit and love of words that recall[s] Joyce and fanciful drawings some compare to Thurber.”

—Hartford Courant (Connecticut)

“A quirky, funny collection of stories, poems and drawings.”

—The New York Times

“Lunatic humor. . . Zany, offbeat, and illustrated by his grotesque and spidery pen. It jolts the reader into gusts of laughter.”

—The Guardian

“Fascinating. . . It goes down like pure whimsy and then back-kicks like a sick mule.”

—The Sunday Times

“Bewitching.”

—USA Today

“Lennon's marvelously clever In His Own Write was the surprise literary sensation of 1964....you get Lennon's biting humor and brilliant puns: Lewis Carroll as rock star.”

—Tampa Tribune

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