The Doubtful Guest
by:
Edward Gorey (author)
Bloomsbury here provide a classic by Edward Gorey, master of the comic art and one of the most renowned cartoonists of our time.
Bloomsbury here provide a classic by Edward Gorey, master of the comic art and one of the most renowned cartoonists of our time.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747541554 (0747541558)
Publish date: June 15th 1998
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Humor,
Literature,
American,
Art,
Poetry,
Picture Books,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Gothic
Since the Doubtful Guest looks a bit like a penguin, I'm particularly enamored. *** Now I long for a doubtful guest costume. Building the beak/nose would be the only tricky part, if one already happens to have a Doctor Who-like bizarrely long scarf, as who doesn't? Excellent costume for anyone w...
Books Read in the Past:One of Gorey's more sensical and linear works, though the doubtful guest itself remains reasonably inexplicable.The morning I turned 17, this showed up on my bedroom door: "It came seventeen years ago – and to this dayIt has shown no intention of going away"This solidified my ...