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Howard Moss Edward Gorey

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English
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
30 January 2020
A literary humor classic-fractured biographical moments from the lives of great writers and composers.

This is a collection of mostly imagined encounters between literary figures and their real or imagined family members, friends, and bitter enemies. In Howard Moss's satirical voice and Edward Gorey's twenty-five deadpan illustrations, we see Jane Austen wielding artful passive aggression and Sense and Sensibility galleys, the Alcott girls sculpting fudge, the rise of Emily Dickinson's ruthless witch hazel business, among other delights.

Perfect for those who love literature too much to hold it closely to actual facts.
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Illustrated by:   Edward Gorey
Imprint:   David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 171mm,  Width: 107mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   159g
ISBN:   9781567926514
ISBN 10:   1567926517
Pages:   96
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Howard Moss was the poetry editor of The New Yorker for almost forty years, a role that he used to promote the work of then-little-known poets such as Anne Sexton, Richard Wilbur, and Sylvia Plath. Hugely influential on American poetry as we know it today, Moss was also a poet himself, as well as a literary critic and professor at Vassar. Edward Gorey is the author and illustrator of many books, including The Unstrung Harp (1953), The Doubtful Guest (1957), The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963), and the Amphigorey collections. His house on Cape Cod is now a museum open to the public.

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