Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879510919 ISBN 13: 9780879510916

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 1978

Synopsis

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. Peake¹s 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,¹ the early ?Mr. Slaughterboard,¹ which foreshadows the Titus books, two plays, ?the Wit to Woo¹ and ?Noah¹s Ark,¹ a broadcast version of ?Mr. Pye,¹ and a generous selection of Peake¹s short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake¹s son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake¹s Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake¹s birth.

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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 (1911-1968) wrote plays, painted, as well as being poet, illustrator, short-story writer, and designer of theatrical costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the Gormenghast novels, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0879510919
• ISBN 13: 9780879510916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Gilmore Maeve