"The Object-Lesson" GOREY, Edward
$300
GOREY, 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 story. Although internally consistent, coherent, and structured, the story has a disjointed and disorienting quality, with melancholic and morbidly humorous effects.