Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) - Hardcover

Peake, Mervyn

3.92

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9780879511432: Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 0879511435 ISBN 13: 9780879511432

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 1982

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As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual whose origins are lost in history and the castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern English fiction.

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Review:

"Mr Peake's first novel holds one with its glittering eye - It has a genuine plot in the strictest sense, and it persuades you to read on simply in order to know what will happen - its gallery of characters is wonderful" (Nation)

"A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination" (New Yorker)

"The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age" (Anthony Burgess Spectator)

From the Publisher:

A brilliantly sustained flight of gothic imagination; the first of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.

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