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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) the immensely talented writer, artist, poet and playwright,is best-known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, and his stunning illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. He was a prolific and astonishingly original writer, 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 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 from Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as from his drawings. Including a new introduction written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth, and to mark the British Library's acquisition of Peake's archives.
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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 "
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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) the immensely talented writer, artist, poet and playwright,is best-known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, and his stunning illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. He was a prolific and astonishingly original writer, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.
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- PublisherThe British Library Publishing Division
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 071235834X
- ISBN 13 9780712358347
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages576
- EditorMaeve Gilmore
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