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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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- Title The Unstrung Harp
- Author Edward Gorey
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 64
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Design, New York
- Date 1999-05-18
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780151004355 / 0151004358
- Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.38 x 5 x 0.4 in (18.75 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Fiction - Authorship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98045487
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Praise for Edward Gorey
“A master of a genre of graphic storytelling [and] a brilliant draftsman."-The New York Times Book Review “Edward Gorey's work is remarkable and mysterious. I find it fascinating."-Max Ernst
“A master of a genre of graphic storytelling [and] a brilliant draftsman."-The New York Times Book Review “Edward Gorey's work is remarkable and mysterious. I find it fascinating."-Max Ernst
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