When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
An edition of The Doubtful Guest
(1957)
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. 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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The Doubtful Guest: A Tale of Deceptive Simplicity
1987, Dodd, Mead
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Der zweifelhafte Gast: Elf merkwürdige Geschichten
1973, Diogenes
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Originally published: New York : Peter Weed Books, 1957.
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