The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium

by Edward Gorey

Book Overview

As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the next millennium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, the master craftsmen is at his best . . Ere the last guest was fin'lly gone. a va, h las, from bad to worse: Adieu to prose, all to verse. The Bahhumbug with lack of tact. Now called attention to the fact, Which made it feel to Edmund Gravel. He was already to unravel

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151005141
• ISBN13: 9780151005147
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

I think that this peace of liderature is strange but different in some way. It has all sorts of different charactors and places. This is a briliant work and i would reccomend it to everyone.

the headless bust

i am a longtime gorey fan I feel fortunate that i was able to get this newest one with the accompanying doll -- the bahambug doll. I have collected mr. gorey for 25years and eagerly await any new publication. His art is matchless and his humor fantastic.

Meaningless Millennium

Only Edward Gorey could take the word Millennium, one wrapped with so much media and adevertising slogans, and turn it into a mystery. The nameless town where Edmund Gravel and the Bahhum Bug get pulled into, right after their Christmas party from the end of The Haunted Tea-Cosy, is like every other town in Gorey's world. It has a gazebo and large houses and a bog and, well, if your reading this then you probably know. And, by the end of the book, we still don't find out what the mystic letters QRV stand for. I do hope Gorey writes another of these books. The Broken Egg Shell, An Engrossing and Erksome Easter Evening?

Wonderful and Funny and better than the first

Wow. What a wonderful book. It's the sequel to the Haunted Tea Cosy and, as well as being longer, it's funnier and the art is great. The pictures are like the ones from the HTC, but they have a hint of Japanese in them. They are coloured in grey and light blue (see cover) and lime yellow. This is a great book and any Goriphile would carry it around with them around the house (like I do)!

Morbidly Macabre and truly Gorey masterpiece!

For those like me who have come late to the world of Edward Gorey and yet embraced it as one worthy to be their own, purchase this book from these nice people...support one of the greatest artists and illustrators of all time.