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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 famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (Source: Wikipedia.)

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  • Cover of: The Shrinking of Treehorn: The Adventures of Treehorn #1

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    First published in 1957 15 editions in 4 languages

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    First published in 1969 12 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Category: fifty drawings
    First published in 1973 12 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable

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    First published in 1961 11 editions in 2 languages

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  • Cover of: Amphigorey: fifteen books
    First published in 1972 11 editions in 2 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition amphigorey0000gore Cover of edition amphigoreyfiftee0000gore Cover of edition amphigoreyperige00edwa

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    First published in 1961 10 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition curioussofaporno00wear

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    First published in 1966 10 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition gildedbat0000edwa

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    First published in 1967 9 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition brerrabbithistri00rees Cover of edition brerrabbithistri00rees

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  • Cover of: You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
    First published in 1962 8 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition youreadtomeillre0000ciar Cover of edition youreadtomeillre00john

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  • Cover of: Edward Gorey's Haunted looking glass: ghost stories

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  • Cover of: The object-lesson
    First published in 1958 6 editions in 2 languages

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  • Cover of: The sopping Thursday
    First published in 1970 6 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: The blue aspic
    First published in 1968 6 editions in 2 languages

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    First published in 1969 6 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition donaldthe0000neum

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March 13, 2023 Edited by mheiman merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 21, 2020 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 1, 2018 Edited by VioletFrost photo & link added
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