The Doubtful Guest
first publication date: 1957
original title: The Doubtful Guest
original language: English
followed by: The Object-Lesson
The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange, penguin-like creature in a turn-of-the-century manor house. An aristocratic family struggles to coexist with the creature, who is by turns despondent and mischievous. By the final page, the guest has stayed for seventeen years, and shows "no intention of going away". Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
1- date of publication: 1998ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-4155-4
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