Gorey Stories

New York: Samuel French, Inc., (1983).

Price: $350.00

Softcover. First edition. Stapled blue wrappers. Fine. Signed by Edward Gorey. "Conceived and adapted for the Stage by Stephen Currens from Eighteen stories by Edward Gorey. Music by David Aldrich."

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Item #278872 Gorey Stories. Edward GOREY.

Edward Gorey
birth name: Edward St. John Gorey
born: 2/22/1925
died: 4/15/2000

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Biography

Writer, illustrator, and designer, noted for his arch humor and gothic sensibility. Gorey drew a pen-and-ink world of beady-eyed, blank-faced individuals whose dignified Edwardian demeanor is undercut by silly and often macabre events. His nonsense rhymes recalled those of Edward Lear, and his mock-Victorian prose delighted readers with its ludicrous fustiness. Gorey's work evoked the cozy sensibilities of childhood reading while subverting that feeling with its often grisly humor. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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