Download or read book The Unstrung Harp Or Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel written by Edward Gorey and published by Harper. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Listing Attic written by Edward Gorey and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bride s Farewell written by Meg Rosoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Amphigorey written by Edward Gorey and published by . This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born to Be Posthumous written by Mark Dery and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The World of Edward Gorey written by Clifford Ross and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book What I Was written by Meg Rosoff and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 . . .
Download or read book Amphigorey Again written by Edward Gorey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound readers. This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey.
Download or read book Amphigorey Also written by Edward Gorey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings (including thirty-two pages in color), captions, and verse showcasing Gorey's unique talents and humor. "The Glorious Nosebleed," "The Utter Zoo," "The Epiplectic Bicycle," and fourteen other selections.
Download or read book Saint Melissa the Mottled written by Edward Gorey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and irreverent, previously unpublished story by the late author of The Wuggly Ump profiles offbeat Saint Melissa, whose canonization occurred despite her Miracles of Destruction, through which she would induce migraines, refine lust and set supernatural traps that have yet to be sprung. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book Gorey Stories written by David Aldrich and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This varied assortment of weird characters and humorous, horrid happenings is drawn from the best of Edward Gorey's illustrated works."--Publisher.
Download or read book The Epiplectic Bicycle written by Edward Gorey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an intrepid voyage of epic proportion with a hero unequaled in the annals of literature. Gorey is "a man of enormous erudition . . . an artist and writer of genius" ("The New Yorker").
Download or read book Bye Bye Birdie written by Shirley Hughes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over fifty books, which have sold more than eleven million copies. Her characters Alfie and Dogger are loved by children and parents all over the world. Bye Bye Birdie is Shirley Hughes' first graphic book for adults. A young man, in his best bow-tie and boater, meets a fashionably dressed - and rather bird-like - young lady. But when he takes her home she undergoes a transformation and our hero's dreams of connubial bliss suddenly turn into the stuff of nightmares. Totally wordless, Bye Bye Birdie showcases Shirley Hughes' brilliant drawing and her extraordinarily vivid imagination.
Download or read book The Angel the Automobilist and Eighteen Others written by Edward Gorey and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of twenty illustrations by artist Edward Gorey"--
Download or read book The Disrespectful Summons written by Edward Gorey and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kissing in America written by Margo Rabb and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for fans of Jenny Han! Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb’s Kissing in America is “a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls,” raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels—118 of them, to be exact—to dull the pain of her loss that’s still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who can relate to Eva’s grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness—and, perhaps, her first shot at real love—Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the west coast. As they road trip across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love. In this honest and emotional journey that National Book Award Finalist Sara Zarr calls “gorgeous, funny, and joyous,” readers will experience the highs of infatuation and the lows of heartache as Eva contends with love in all of its forms. Since publication, this novel received 4 starred reviews and has been named: A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A Spirit of Texas selection A TAYSHAS High School Reading List Selection An Oprah Summer Reading List selection A Junior Library Guild selection An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Publisher’s Lunch Buzz Book for Young Adults
Download or read book Instant Lives More written by Howard Moss and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humorous little book provides brief mock biographies of famous writers, artists and musicians: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, the Brontes, Vittore Carpaccio, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Sergei Eisenstein, Ford Madox Ford, Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, James Joyce, Zoltan Kodaly, T.E. Lawrence, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Somerset Maugham, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anna Pavlova, Marcel Proust, Camille Saint-Saens, Sappho, Augustin Eugene Scribe, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Jan Van Eyck, and Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.
