Donald Has a Difficulty
9 best books like Donald Has a Difficulty (Peter F. Neumeyer): Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Again, Elephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey, The World of Edward Gorey, The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, The Art of Amy Brown
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
| Author | Terry Jones |
| ISBN | 1857933362 |
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0747541604 |
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0151011079 |
This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebra- tion of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound....
| Author | Kevin McDermott |
| ISBN | 0764924958 |
A look into the artist Edward Gorey's house. Photographs of books shelves, cats, collections of bits and bobs. I love looking at peoples homes, their book shelves and their collections of bits and bobs that other people would think of as rubbish but looking into these pictures had a very gloomy feel....
| Author | Clifford Ross |
| ISBN | 0810990830 |
Though I've been attracted to Gorey's art for some time now, I couldn't have told you before I read this book why I was. According to the interview here, Gorey adores Dickens (especially his lesser-read works) and, according to interpretation offered in the essay, in his art he both celebrates and parodies...
| Author | Alexander Theroux |
| ISBN | 1560973854 |
Like an obscure gentleman sleuth in the British mystery novels that he loved, the celebrated American artist Edward Gorey was a curious, reclusive individual with an inordinate interest in the drama of other people's lives, and a penchant for the grim reality of true crime. Surrounded by cats, books,...
| Author | John Ciardi |
| ISBN | 0064460606 |
Published to acclaim in the first years of the 60s, Ciardi’s clever verse suffers about half the time from that winking eye that some adults sport when talking to kids while only paying half attention to their first audience because the other half is reserved for the grown-ups. Some of the poems reflect...
| Author | Amy Brown |
| ISBN | 0974461229 |
The Art of Amy Brown is the first collection of Amy Brown's wildly popular art. It was published by Chimera Publishing in 2003. The book is 157 pages of art, with a commentary by Amy Brown for every piece of artwork. The Art of Amy Brown has an introduction by the well-known author Charles de Lint. There are...
