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The Headless Bust by Edward Gorey, Patrick Mauriès · Booklabria

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The Headless Bust

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The Headless Bust

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First published: 1999
Editions: 4 in 2 languages

Synopsis

An Englishman takes to the road in the company of a philosophical bug, their observations skewering everything English. "The private rooms of Monsieur H-- / Were known for being oh so posh; / Then it was learned that all his druthers / Were still the property of others."

Subjects: Poetry
Humor
Comics & graphic novels, general
Millennium
Pictorial Wit and humor
Melancholy

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4 in 2 languages

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