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The Doubtful Guest
Edward Gorey, Edward Gorey
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An edition of The Doubtful Guest (1957)

The Doubtful Guest

[1st ed.]

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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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Doubleday & Co.
Language
English
Pages
32

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Subjects

Hospitality, Etiquette, Humor, Pictorial American wit and humor, Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Juvenile fiction, Pictorial Wit and humor

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Edition Notes

Published in
Garden City, NY, USA
Copyright Date
1957

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
817.5
Library of Congress
PS3513.O614 D6

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
[unpaged]
Number of pages
32

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6224336M
LCCN
57010200
OCLC/WorldCat
1943473
Library Thing
109820
Goodreads
471830

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When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
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