"The Object-Lesson" GOREY, Edward Paul Stuart Kaiser Wilhelm and Crown Prince

Kaiser Wilhelm and Crown Prince

in the presence of the King and Queen and members of the royal family

c1939 map of Newport's famous 'Ten Mile Drive' along the ocean front showing the locations of the beautiful summer residences of many prominent people

acquired by his family

and sense of the absurd make The Clothes They Stood Up In a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie

"The Object-Lesson" GOREY, Edward Paul Stuart Kaiser Wilhelm and Crown PrinceGOREY, Edward [30] pp. Doubleday & Company, Inc 1958 First Edition 6 1 4" x 8 3 4" The Object Lesson (1958) is a picture book by Edward Gorey. A work of surrealist art and literature, it is typical of Gorey's avant garde style of storytelling, with Victorian and Edwardian esque line drawings and settings, each described with a sentence fragment which adds to a larger continuous narrative. The pictures and text combine to tell a strange and obscure