Boy in Darkness - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080197981 ISBN 13: 9780080197982

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd, 1976

Synopsis

A fantasy story in which a young man escapes the tedium of palace life, only to fall into the hands of a mysterious couple who intend to present him as a sacrifice to an evil power. From the author of the GORMENGHAST and LETTERS TO A LOST UNCLE.

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Review:

Master of the macabre, Mervin Peake, retells the story of young Titus Groan who, tired of the endless and senseless ritual of the kingdom of Gormenghast, leaves the boundaries of the world in which he grew up to embark on an adventure that sees him trapped in a desert of grey space.

Rich in both language and imagery, Boy in Darkness is intriguing and compelling and bears all the hallmarks of the Gormenghast trilogy that has captured, delighted and appalled the imaginations of readers of all ages.

A captivating introduction to the work of Mervyn Peake, Boy in Darkness is a classic and fantastical tale that will appeal to anyone who enjoys good story-telling and is not afraid to dip their literary toes into deeper, darker waters. Age 11 and over. --Susan Harrison

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"This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time." --"Washington Post Book World "on The Gormenghast series" ""There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is uniquely brilliant, and we are right to call it a modern classic." --Anthony Burgess on The Gormenghast series" ""[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 on The Gormenghast series" ""An illustrator of the caliber of Goya, Cruikshank, Tenniel, Daumier, Dore, and Cocteau. . . . one of the most sensuous and mysterious English writers, a fantasist so concerned with color, sound, and light that they become actors in the fiction. Does anybody else write like this and so well?" --"Booklist This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time." --Washington Post Book World on The Gormenghast series "There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is uniquely brilliant, and we are right to call it a modern classic." --Anthony Burgess on The Gormenghast series "[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 on The Gormenghast series "An illustrator of the caliber of Goya, Cruikshank, Tenniel, Daumier, Dore, and Cocteau. . . . one of the most sensuous and mysterious English writers, a fantasist so concerned with color, sound, and light that they become actors in the fiction. Does anybody else write like this and so well?" --Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0080197981
• ISBN 13: 9780080197982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 61