Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy) - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

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9780879514266: Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 0879514264 ISBN 13: 9780879514266

Publisher: Overlook Press, 1992

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Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and d

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Review:

"Mervyn Peake is a master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination" (The Times)

"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. [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great work...a classic of our age" (Robertson Davies)

"[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)

From the Publisher:

‘The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age’ Anthony Burgess, Spectator

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