Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879514256 ISBN 13: 9780879514259

Publisher: Overlook Press, 1992

Synopsis

As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0879514256
• ISBN 13: 9780879514259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396