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Title: Cautionary Tales for Children by Edward Gorey, Hilaire Belloc ISBN: 0-15-100715-2 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific and disturbingly real...
Comment: There's a sense of time gone by, a lot of these deaths were real for kids and the author's intentions are interesting to ponder. He was/is a great artist.
Rating: 4
Summary: Non Better a Belloc: Cautionary Tales for Children reviewed
Comment: Edward Gorey's first major posthumous publication is like a newly forged work, with freshness and originality. Published several times since 1907, Harcourt's reprint of "Cautionary Tales for Children" contains sixty-one new illustrations enfolding the 95-year old verse, and the result is very satisfying.
Gorey created these illustrations several years ago, but for some reason, chose not publish them while he was alive. Gorey's Victorian style is a delightful fit for Belloc's verse. In fact, those already familiar with Belloc's Cautionary Tales or Cautionary Verses series may very well conclude that they were strong influences for Gorey's "The Beastly Baby", "The Gashlycrumb Tines", "The Epipleptic Bicycle" and others. Certainly, many of the verses in Cautionary Tales feel like they could have been written by Gorey: "Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion", "Henry King, Who chewed on bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies", "Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death", and so on. Unlike the original cartoonish illustrations by Blackwood, Gorey's illustrations simply set the stage - the big moment is then played out in the imagination. It is Edward Gorey's delightful magic, at work.
Glen Emil...
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Title: The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003084 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003076 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003130 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151004153 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 31 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Amphigorey by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0399504338 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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