The broken spoke
by Edward Gorey
1976American wit and humor, PictorialBicycles in artCaricatures and cartoonsBicyclesPictorial American wit and humor
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American wit and humor, PictorialBicycles in artCaricatures and cartoonsBicyclesPictorial American wit and humorFiction, general
First published 1976Characters & people
About the author
Edward Gorey
February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000
Edward Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books. Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books can be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books like *The Object Lesson* have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentations — creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects — complicates matters still further. As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, "Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable." Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most…
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