![]() ![]() The War of the Worlds, like all things Gorey, is sublime in its entirety. One of Gorey’s inimitable pen-and-ink drawings adorns the beginning of each chapter. Wells, Adam Rufino (Illustrator), Adam Roberts (Introduction), Sam Dyer (Designed by) Hardcover 39.99 Hardcover 39.99 eBook 1. Wells’s The War of the Worlds ( public library) for the celebrated Looking Glass Library series, published in 1960 under the New York Review of Books Classics imprint. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. ![]() Eliot children’s book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, on which the Broadway musical Cats is based.Īt the end of his time at Doubleday, Gorey illustrated a special edition of H. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. ![]() During his seven-year stint living in New York City between 19, he worked at the Doubleday art department - which also employed young Andy Warhol - and illustrated a number of books by famous mainstream authors, including the T. Beloved mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey - grim alphabetician, masterful letter-writer, dispenser of visual snark, semi-secret sort-of-pornographer - was born on this day in 1925. ![]()
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