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  • Edward Gorey
    Edward Gorey

    …alphabets; his most celebrated is The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1962), which disposes of 26 children: “M is for Maud who was swept out to sea / N is for Neville who died of ennui.” He illustrated two books by 19th-century English writer and artist Edward Lear, including the highly acclaimed The…

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    …alphabets; his most celebrated is The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1962), which disposes of 26 children: “M is for Maud who was swept out to sea / N is for Neville who died of ennui.” He illustrated two books by 19th-century English writer and artist Edward Lear, including the highly acclaimed The…

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