"The Object-Lesson" GOREY, Edward Paul Stuart and sense of the absurd

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"The Object-Lesson" GOREY, Edward Paul Stuart and sense of the absurdGOREY, Edward [30] pp. Doubleday & Company, Inc 1958 First Edition 6 1 4" x 8 3 4" The Object Lesson (1958) is a picture book by Edward Gorey. A work of surrealist art and literature, it is typical of Gorey's avant garde style of storytelling, with Victorian and Edwardian esque line drawings and settings, each described with a sentence fragment which adds to a larger continuous narrative. The pictures and text combine to tell a strange and obscure