The Doubtful Guest
by Edward Gorey
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When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
About this book
"When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, there was no one expected -- and no one in sight. Then they saw something standing on top of an urn, whose peculiar appearance gave them quite a turn..." Thus begins one of Edward Gorey's most popular illustrated books, *The Doubtful Guest*, a deliciously twisted comedy of manners, where a scarf and sneaker clad creature overstays its welcome by seventeen years in the home of a staid, Victorian family. "An artist and writer of genius" (New Yorker) gives us a small-format edition of one of his favorite tales.
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HospitalityEtiquetteHumorPictorial American wit and humorFiction, generalFiction, humorous, general
First published 1957About 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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