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The Object-Lesson

by Edward Gorey · 1958 · 32 pages

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Vintage Gorey - absurd, nonsensical and disconcerting

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Genre
humorhorrormystery
Themes
artgothic
Setting
1950s
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages
Form
graphic novelsshort stories

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