On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear Person.

The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel

Arts & Photography

Edward. GOREY

Individual Artists

Mariner Books

First edition Toledano A85c . A companion volume to Gorey's Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too. Illustrated by the author. unpaginated. decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. 4to.

Amphigorey Also

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

CONDON & WEED. NY 1983

Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."

The Dwindling Party (A Pop-Up Book from Random House)

Children's Books

Random House]

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Graphic Novels

Dodd, Mead, Co.

Foreword by the author: "Amphigorey is made up of books first published between 1953 and 1965. They are now difficult and often expensive to come by; hence this compilation. Its title is taken from amphigory, or amphigouri, meaning a nonsense verse or composition." E. G.

Amphigorey: Fifteen Books by Edward Gorey

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Berkley Windhover

Cat-e-gory

Benn

Ominous Gathering: Blue Aspic

Vinegar Works: Gashlycrumb Tinies

Vinegar Works: Evil Garden

This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles. This book grew out of a commission from Sports Illustrated and sixteen of the cards first appeared there.

The Broken Spoke

Ernest Benn

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