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The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel
de Gorey, Edward
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Northport, New York, United States
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NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little Brown (1953). Stated First edition Toledano A1a; 12mo.; pictorial boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; Author's first book; edge-rubbed boards with spine ends lightly bumped and a small hole on endpaper else very good in a edgeworn dust jacket with closed tears on spine ends that is taped on the under side and with the original price intact.
Sinopsis
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.
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- WellRead Books
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- 42326
- Título
- The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel
- Autor
- Gorey, Edward
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- Editorial
- NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little Brown (1953)
- Palabras clave
- Gorey, Authors, Authorship, Fiction
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- Gorey;
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