The Doubtful Guest
Edward Gorey
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."
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."
年:
1998
出版社:
Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
语言:
english
页:
32
ISBN 10:
0747541558
ISBN 13:
9780747541554
文件:
PDF, 938 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1998
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