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

Peake, Mervyn Laurence

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9780879511210: Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake

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ISBN 10: 0879511214 ISBN 13: 9780879511210

Publisher: Viking Pr, 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.Peake�s 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 ?Noah�s Ark,� a broadcast version of ?Mr. Pye,� and a generous selection of Peake�s short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake�s son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake�s Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake�s birth.

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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 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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