This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia\'s catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey.
The little girl\'s journeiy is perfect fodder for Edward Gorey\'s brilliant penwork, so detailed and perfectly wrought that it\'s hard to believe he could master these images at such a small size (the illustrations.
Even her doll suffers a grusome end.
The poor Child is orphaned and treated mercilessly by schoolmates and ruffians alike, and only barely survives--for a time, anyway--by the skin of her baby teeth.
This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia\'s catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey