The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
Title | The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Gorey |
Publisher | Harper |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
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Called "a small masterpiece" by the "Times Literary Supplement, " this book, originally published in 1953, takes a look at the literary life and its attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom. Illustrations.
The Listing Attic
Title | The Listing Attic PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Gorey |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Humor |
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The Bride's Farewell
Title | The Bride's Farewell PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Rosoff |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2009-08-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101105402 |
A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling to repeat her fate, Pell runs away on her wedding day taking only her beautiful, white horse. But, as she journeys through a strange world of gypsies in search of a new life, Pell finds that her ties to home refuse to release her. Like the works of Philip Pullman and Sue Monk Kidd, The Bride's Farewell will resonate with readers of all ages as it grapples with timeless questions of how to live, how to love, and how to be true to one's self.
Amphigorey
Title | Amphigorey PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Gorey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1991-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780140129038 |
What I Was
Title | What I Was PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Rosoff |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2008-08-07 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0141919248 |
'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn’t want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact – it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn’t want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning.' Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale – What I Was is unlike anything you will have read before . . .
Born to Be Posthumous
Title | Born to Be Posthumous PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Dery |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 031645107X |
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
The World of Edward Gorey
Title | The World of Edward Gorey PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford Ross |
Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002-10-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780810990838 |
A look at the artist and his work, including his illustrations for T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and the animated credits for the Mystery! series on public television.