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The third Edward Gorey collection- Dedicated to: The dog at Gay Head :-) Features 17 stories THE UTTER ZOO: An alphabet featuring creatures whose names begin with each of the 26 letters, from: "The Ampoo is intensely neat; it's head is small, likewise it's feet" to "About the Zote what can be said? There was just one, and now it's dead" THE BLUE ASPIC: A classic, about Jasper Ankle a VERY obsessed fan of a opera singer named Ortenzia Caviglia who puts the audience in raptures with her arias like: "Gli Occhielli & Lizzia Bordena" (Lizzie Borden!) :-) THE EPIPLECTIC BICYCLE: "It was the day after Tuesday and the day before Wednesday..Embley and Yewbert were hitting one another with croquet mallets"..suddenly they discover a bicycle, and go on an adventure! THE SOPPING THURSDAY: It's raining and Bruno the dog's master cannot find his umbrella! Bruno (a very noble beast) goes off to search for his masters umbrella, passing by many people who are also trying to cope with the weather. THE GRAND PASSION (A novel): A very short novel! About the odd conversation between a woman with a geisha hairdo and a gentleman in a top hat. :-P LES PASSEMENTERIES HORRIBLES: A passementerie is: A dress trimming, as of braid or silk embroidery (The Winston Dictionary College Edition) This story features some very ominous passementeries looming over people and animals, peeking through windows at people. :-P Acting very suspicious! THE ECLECTIC ABECEDARIUM: Another alphabet: "Betray no qualms, when asking for ALMS" "A hidden BIRD is often heard" together with cute little pictures. L'HEURE BLEUE: The title translates to: "The Blue Hour" the sky in the background is colored a beautiful twilight blue.Read more ›
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Hello folks.....all I have to say is that if your a Gorey fan then this is a must have! Includes great little titles like The Utter Zoo, The Stupid Joke, and The Tuning Fork just to name a few! A lot of other goodies are in there too!
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What a wonderful compilation of the works of this unusual and extremely gifted artist! While Charles Addams is a household name, that of Edward Gorey still brings looks of puzzlement whenever it comes up in conversation. I personally feel he has never received the acclaim justly due him, but then again, his works certainly will not be to everyone's taste. At times his stories are beyond comprehension, but perhaps that was his intention--to leave us guessing or use our own imagination to fill in the gaps. Be that as it may, the illustrations are worth the price of the book alone. If you love Edward Gorey and would rather have some of his works together in one volume, do yourself a favor and purchase this book. But be prepared to enter his personal weird and at times incomprehensible world.
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Edward Gorey is probably best known for the animations that precede Mystery, on PBS. His cartoons have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, and he has published a massive number of books. His Amphigorey series (Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, Amphigorey Also) collects his works in omnibus form.
Amphigorey Also is the third in the series. It is a perfect introduction for those not familiar with Gorey's work. The book contains seventeen chapters, which are as follows:
The Utter Zoo
The Blue Aspic
The Epileptic Bicycle
The Sopping Thursday
The Grand Passion
Les Passementeries Horribles
The Eclectic Abecedarium
L'Heure bleue
The Broken Spoke
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
The Glorious Nosebleed
The Loathsome Couple
The Green Beads
Les Urnes Utiles
The Stupid Joke
The Prune People
The Tuning Fork
Each section is comprised of Gorey's lovely, macabre and often startling cartoons, and his brilliantly clever captions. Gorey has a dark sense of humor. We are talking here about gallows humor. Death pervades his work. Subjects that run through his oeuvre are infanticide, madness, murder, death in general, rain, umbrellas, revenge, and endless word play.
Gorey seems obsessed with his own name. I find it fascinating that he constantly plays about with creating anagrams of Edward Gorey. A few that I counted in Amphigorey were: Dogear Wryde, G.E. Deadworry, Awdrey Gore, E.G. Deadworry, Waredo Dyrge, Deary Rewdgo. There are also near anagrams such as Regera Dowdy. But then, these shouldn't really count.
Gorey's word play builds itself into the structure of some of the chapters.Read more ›
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