Download or read book Gashlycrumb Tinies written by Edward Gorey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gashlycrumb Tinies Or After the Outing written by Edward Gorey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, small-format edition of one of Edward Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality" (Vanity Fair): a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.
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 Curious Sofa written by Ogdred Weary and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 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 Door Wide Open written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.
Download or read book Sam and Emma written by Donald Nelsen and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Sam, the dog, tries to explain that everyone should be allowed their own way of doing things, Emma, the cat, can only scoff at the animals they meet during their walk through the woods.
Download or read book Jim who Ran Away from His Nurse and was Eaten by a Lion written by Hilaire Belloc and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hardcover release of a darkly comic, cautionary 1907 classic adds whimsical illustrations, interactive lift-flaps and a roaring lion pop-up to the story of a youngster whose forays from home culminate in a "miserable end."
Download or read book The Doubtful Guest written by Edward Gorey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a tale--perhaps an allegory--of deceptive simplicity, with universal meaning for all civilized men and women, Gorey's "The Doubtful Guest" is republished here in a deluxe hardcover edition at an eerily low price.
Download or read book Victorian Visual Culture written by Renate Brosch and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to the diverse field of visual culture in the 19th century. It surveys major changes in the field taking into account photography, theatrical practice, changing land- and cityscapes as well as new technologies for entertainment and information. The inventions and discoveries of the period revolutionized methods of cultural production, provoked new intentions in representation and radically altered the experience of the visual in art as well as everyday life. Hence people had to adapt to new perceptions and their habitual ways of seeing were challenged. At the same time they carved out new positions for themselves vis a vis the visual, defining new identities as spectators and observers. In addition to the introductory overview, the volume offers a collection of articles which concentrate on less well-known aspects of Victorian visual culture, seeking to contribute an explanation in the context of the larger political, thus seeking to disclose new vantage points for explanations in the of the larger political, ideological and psychological context of the era.
Download or read book The Headless Bust written by Edward Gorey and published by Bloomsbury Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular Haunted-Tea Cosy return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the new millenium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, here is the master craftsman at his best!
Download or read book The Twelve Terrors of Christmas written by John Updike and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug.
Download or read book The Utter Zoo written by Edward Gorey and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six curious creatures—from the fastidious Ampoo to the world's one and only Zote—fill the pages of The Utter Zoo, an alphabet from the untamed imagination of Edward Gorey. The Boggerslosh, the Crunk, and the Dawbis; the Ippagoggy, the Jelbislup, and the Kwongdzu; the Scrug, the Twibbit, and the Ulp—each strange and wonderful zoomate displays its own primary characteristic, described in Gorey's inimitable, droll, rhyming couplets.A writer and artist with an instantly recognizable style, Gorey (American, 1925–2000) created over one hundred works and was also a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! First published in 1967, The Utter Zoo is a favorite of Gorey fans, young and old alike—no matter how well they know their ABCs.
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 Traction Man Is Here Read Listen Edition written by Mini Grey and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this adorable Read & Listen edition, Traction Man—wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt—comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner. This superhero searches for the Lost Wreck of the Sieve as the boy makes a game of doing the dishes, and later in the bathtub, he conquers the Mysterious Toes that are stealing his pet, the brave little Scrubbing Brush. These are just a few of the action-packed adventures played out by the boy and his new toy that may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but can vanquish all manner of villains lurking around the house. Mini Grey’s story in words and pictures is an irresistible invitation to the private world of a child’s play. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.
Download or read book The Betrayed Confidence Revisited written by Edward Gorey and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Betrayed Confidence Revisited brings together for the first time all nine of Gorey's thematic postcard sets. These fascinating works, published over a twenty-year span, are akin to shuffled stories and were issued under his anagram pseudonym Dogear Wryde.--
Download or read book The Beastly Baby written by Edward Gorey and published by Peter Weed. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a tongue in cheek description of a horrible baby, whose family is unable to get rid of it until an eagle carries it off
