Cover of Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin

by Edith H. Tarcov, Edward Gorey

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48 pages1989Scholastic PaperbacksISBN 9780590436168

About this book

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Publication Details

Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Published
1989
Pages
48
ISBN
9780590436168
Language
en

About Edith H. Tarcov

Edward Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books. Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books can be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books like *The Object Lesson* have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentations — creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects — complicates matters still further. As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, "Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable." Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (Source: Wikipedia.)

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