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Gormenghast (Paperback)
Mervyn Peake
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Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling
castle Gormenghast. 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 death. Steerpike, who began his climb
across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral
stairacse to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie
imprisonment, manipulation, and murder. Gormenghast is the second
volume in Mervyn Peake's widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much
more than a sequel to Titus Groan--it is an enrichment and
deepening of that book. And back in single volumes for the first
time in years, a new generation of fantasy fans will grow to love
this tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's
most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which
the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. 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, manipulation and
murder. Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an
enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident,
character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks
as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of
imaginative writing.
Lost in the frozen polar wastes, an explorer huddles in his
shelter, typing, with frozen fingers, the story of his lonely,
extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to the nephew
he has never seen. With his only companion, the tortoise-like
mutant Jackson, the Uncle has gone in search of his ambition and
his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion. Illustrated on
every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie original drawings,
"Letters from a Lost Uncle" is the product of a unique imagination
and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange
genius of Mervyn Peake. Painstakingly re-originated from Peake's
original artwork and typescript, this edition celebrates the
centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth in 2011 and is re-issued
alongside Peake's illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's "The
Hunting of the Snark" (Methuen ISBN 978 0413 777140).
Classics of epic fantasy, Peakes series of Gormenghast novels
represents one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of Gothic
imagination. For the first time in years, the first book in this
timeless series is available in an individual paperback volume,
complete with new packaging.
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none so apt as Peake's--first published in 1949 and out of print until now.
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.
In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle
of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his
birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms,
shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and
he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. Peake
began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but
he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the
fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve
Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The
Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.
Enter the world of Gormenghast...Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder - a world suggested in a tour-de-force that ranks as one of this century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost
twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual,
and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a
travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up
stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of
Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and
with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a
few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued
by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the
traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to
prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.
Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. The extraordinary inhabitants of the island range fromthe formidable Miss George in her purple busby to the wanton, raven-haired Tintagieu, 'five foot three inches of sex'. Mr Pye, however, is prone to excess and in the increasingly personalised struggle between good and evil, excess is very nearly his downfall.
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Gormenghast (Paperback)
Mervyn Peake; Adapted by John Constable
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R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This work is adapted from Mervyn Peake's great gothic trilogy, a
fantastical world comes to life. In one extraordinary evening of
physical theatre you will enter a world of grotesque characters,
fantastic ritual and heart-rending drama. It is not for the
faint-hearted. David Glass Ensemble revives its award-winning
production - one of its greatest hits of the 1990's. "Gormenghast"
opens at the Lighthouse Theatre, Poole in May 2006.
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