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The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) by Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp

The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 1168
Publisher: Overlook Press
ISBN: 0879516284, 9780879516284

The Gormenghast trilogy was one of the most unusual cult cycles of the 20th-century. Peake, the son of medical missionaries to China, wrote of the ancient, gargantuan Gormenghast Castle inhabited by the mad Groan family and the subsequent birth and adventures of its royal heir, Titus Groan Titus. Gormenghast Longneck Public Library. Gormenghast castle comes alive in his hands. PEAKE, M.: Gormenghast Trilogy and Titus Awakes (The). But his "Gormenghast" sequence — "Titus Groan," "Gormenghast" and "Titus Alone" — was never intended to be a trilogy. It has little or no supernatural content and lacks the sentimentality of Tolkien. Okay, after hearing about this damn series for years and years, I finally broke down and bought the omnibus edition Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone in one volume. Sting plays the unscrupulous 17-year-old Steerpike in the BBC radio plays of Mervyn Peake's novels, Titus Groan and Gormenghast (originally published in 1946 and 1950, respectively). A spectacular example of “the-one-that-got-away” is Mervyn Peake (1911-68), English poet, illustrator and deviser of the gothic Gormenghast Trilogy. Peake has a great way with words. He can be difficult to adjust to, but once I got rolling I enjoyed reading the first two novels in this collection. In truth, only the first two books, Titus Groan and Gormenghast, both set at the sprawling castle of Gormenghast, work as a unit. Now then, I have tried and TRIED to read this damn I read Gene Wolfe's novels whenever I can find them and those are some pretty tough concepts, every time I think I understand what he's talking about, I find out I was wrong.