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    The Unstrung Harp: Or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel (Hardback) By (author) Edward Gorey, Illustrated by Edward Gorey

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    Short Description for The Unstrung HarpLooks at the literary life and its 'attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom.' This book is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, desuetude, fever, tides, labels, mourning, elsewards.
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  • Perhaps one of his most autobiographical works, "The Unstrung Harp" is a look at the literary life and its 'attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom.' But as with all of Edward Gorey's books, "TUH" is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, desuetude, fever, tides, labels, mourning, elsewards. Finally, "TUH" is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing "The Unstrung Harp". Originally published in 1953, it's a small masterpiece.