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The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange, penguin-like creature in a turn-of-the-century manor house. An aristocratic family struggles to coexist with the creature, who is by turns despondent and mischievous. By the final page, the guest has stayed for seventeen years, and shows "no intention of going away".

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  • The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange, penguin-like creature in a turn-of-the-century manor house. An aristocratic family struggles to coexist with the creature, who is by turns despondent and mischievous. By the final page, the guest has stayed for seventeen years, and shows "no intention of going away". (en)
  • 『うろんな客』（うろんなきゃく、英: The Doubtful Guest）は、絵本作家のエドワード・ゴーリーによるアメリカの大人向け絵本。1957年刊行。日本では柴田元幸の訳により2000年に発行された。ゴーリーの初期作品の一つであり、ゴーリーの代表作の一つに挙げられている。 (ja)
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  • The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange, penguin-like creature in a turn-of-the-century manor house. An aristocratic family struggles to coexist with the creature, who is by turns despondent and mischievous. By the final page, the guest has stayed for seventeen years, and shows "no intention of going away". (en)
  • 『うろんな客』（うろんなきゃく、英: The Doubtful Guest）は、絵本作家のエドワード・ゴーリーによるアメリカの大人向け絵本。1957年刊行。日本では柴田元幸の訳により2000年に発行された。ゴーリーの初期作品の一つであり、ゴーリーの代表作の一つに挙げられている。 (ja)
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