Begun while Gorey was still an undergraduate at Harvard, it is nevertheless the best book ever made about the awful pains and fleeting pleasures of writing a novel. Earbrass, “the noted novelist,” begins in some trepidation his new book, to be titled (like the book that contains him) The Unstrung Harp. In the first of Gorey’s published books, The Unstrung Harp (1953), the character of Mr. In his small books, Edward Gorey mastered the art of false nostalgia, evoking in the reader a mood at once fearsome, absurd, unsettling, and comic.
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