Peake's Progress: Selected Writings And Drawings (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185597 ISBN 13: 9780141185590

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

A celebration of the imagination of Mervyn Peake assembled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore. Included many of his most well known poems, a cross-selection of his drawings, fragments of an autobiography and two plays.

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Review:

Read by Sebastian and Fabian Peake, the author s sons, each piece is a little gem, showing not only the author s prodigious and unflagging imagination, but also an artist s approach to language. From the strange, Carrollian backwardness of The Weird Journey where the narrator falls fast awake and drifts into a peculiar travelogue, to the splendidly deprecating I Bought a Palm-Tree we hear a writer at the peak of his powers. . . . This recording is a delightful and poignant homage to the writer and his work that will appeal to more listeners than just aficionados. --Elizabeth Bentley "Good Reading "" "Read by Sebastian and Fabian Peake, the author's sons, each piece is a little gem, showing not only the author's prodigious and unflagging imagination, but also an artist's approach to language. From the strange, Carrollian backwardness of 'The Weird Journey' where the narrator falls 'fast awake' and drifts into a peculiar travelogue, to the splendidly deprecating 'I Bought a Palm-Tree' we hear a writer at the peak of his powers. . . . This recording is a delightful and poignant homage to the writer and his work that will appeal to more listeners than just aficionados." --Elizabeth Bentley "Good Reading "

About the Author:

Mervyn Peake died in 1968. One of the greatest British artists and writers of the century his major works include the three Gormenghast novels (TITUS GROAN, GORMENGHAST and TITUS ALONE) and his illustrations to THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER and THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141185597
• ISBN 13: 9780141185590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592