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Name: The Doubtful Guest

Author: Edward Gorey
Year: 1957
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Genres/categories: Art, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Humor, Children, Fantasy, Poetry

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ISBN:
9780312921453
9780825304071
9780926637023
0312921454
0396076289
0825304075
0926637029
The doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. The staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away."
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