Titus Groan - Softcover
As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.
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"Mr Peake's first novel holds one with its glittering eye - It has a genuine plot in the strictest sense, and it persuades you to read on simply in order to know what will happen - its gallery of characters is wonderful" (Nation)
"A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination" (New Yorker)
"The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age" (Anthony Burgess Spectator)
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"A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination" (New Yorker)
"The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age" (Anthony Burgess Spectator)
A brilliantly sustained flight of gothic imagination; the first of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0140060138
- ISBN 13 9780140060133
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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