Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #237414 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Brings together seventeen illustrated nonsense compositions, including "Epiplective Bicycle," "The Utter Zoo," "The Blue Aspic," "The Sopping Thursday," and "The Glorious Nosebleed".

Customer Reviews

Save it for a stormy night
The late, great Edward Gorey must have lived in a little world of his own. Normally I find it a frustrating experience trying to make sense of something that makes no attempt to help do so, but so much of this book flies in the face of the very idea of making sense (You just have to look at a frame or two of 'The Prune People') that you can quite happily give up the whole idea and just enjoy the other-worldly weirdness of it. The 'Utter Zoo' segment qualifies this book for a place on the shelf next to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear; as for the rest of it, to get the full effect save it for a stormy night.

Surreal and Stupendous!
This is a book to adore - unfortunately it's also one of those books that some people will simply not understand at all.

Some of the stories will make you laugh out loud, and some of them will make you very puzzled! The art is simply gorgeous, and it'll feed your surreality requirements for at least a month...