Peake's Progress: Selected Writings And Drawings of Mervyn Peake - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

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9780140046298: Peake's Progress: Selected Writings And Drawings of Mervyn Peake

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ISBN 10: 0140046291 ISBN 13: 9780140046298

Publisher: Penguin, 1981

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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. "Peakes Progress" is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. ?The White Chief of the ?Umzimbooboo Kaffirs, the early ?Mr. Slaughterboard, which foreshadows the Titus books, two plays, ?the Wit to Woo and ?Noahs Ark, a broadcast version of ?Mr. Pye, and a generous selection of Peakes short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peakes son, Sebastian, this edition of Peakes Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peakes birth.

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Praise for Mervyn Peake: ?A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary imagination.? --"The New Yorker" ?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 is a very, very great work . . . a classic of our age.? --Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy ?[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 true fantasy classic of our time.? --"The Washington Post" ?Peake's style is marvelous... His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing.? --"San Francisco Chronicle" ?Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but fans of Mervyn Peake's Titus trilogy maintain that this extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques

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Mervyn Peake was a writer, artist, poet and playwright, best-known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast Trilogy, and his stunning illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Maeve Gilmore was Mervyn Peake's wife. She edited several books pertaining to different aspects of Peake's work, and was an artist in her own right.

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