The Gormenghast Trilogy

Author: Mervyn Peake

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  • : 9780099288893
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : May 1999
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Description

Enter the world of Gormenghast... Gormanghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder - a world suggested in a tour-de-force that ranks as one of this century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

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One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century.

Awards

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Reviews

"A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination" -- The Times


"Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great work...a classic of our age" -- Robertson Davies


"[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience" -- C. S. Lewis


"The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works to come out of the age that produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four" -- Anthony Burgess, Spectator


"Sourdust. Flay. Barquentine. Prunesquallor. Rottcodd. Steerpike. Into this crowd of personalities is born Titus, destined to be 77th Earl of Groan. If he survives... Titus Groan is a novel unlike any other and Gormenghast makes the Winchester House look like a lean-to. Read it and be forever changed." -- Adam (staff)

Author description

Mervyn Peake was born in 1911. He is perhaps most famous for the Gormenghast trilogy which were published between 1946 and 1959 - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone. He has also written a book for children, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor and several volumes of poetry. He was also a gifted book illustrator. He died in 1968.