Titus Alone - Softcover

Peake, Mervyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585679925 ISBN 13: 9781585679928

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2008

Synopsis

As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with the force and vividness of a dream--or a nightmare.This final installment in the Gormenghast Trilogy is a fantastic triumph--a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm.

About this title

Review:

"[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984." (Anthony Burgess)

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

"Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before" (C. S. Lewis)

From the Publisher:

The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1585679925
• ISBN 13: 9781585679928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224