Titus Groan

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468301020
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Titus Groan written by Mervyn Peake and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the classic gothic trilogy. “A masterpiece . . . a moody, melancholy comedy with an underlying wit and profundity that cannot be denied.” —Speculiction The basis for the 2000 BBC series Now in development by Showtime As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power. Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake’s extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. Praise the Gormenghast Trilogy “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. It is a very, very great work.” —Robertson Davies, New York Times-bestselling author “A sumptuous, poetic epic . . . considered by some to have an equal or even greater degree of importance to the development of modern fantasy as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” —SFF180 “Mervyn Peake’s gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle . . . This true classic is a feast of words unlike anything else in the world of fantasy. Those who explore Gormenghast castle will be richly rewarded.” —SFF Book Reviews

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099288893
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gormenghast Trilogy written by Mervyn Peake and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century: Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Earl Titus Groan is lord and heir. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780879516284
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gormenghast Novels written by Mervyn Peake and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doomed lord, an emergent hero, an array of bizarre creatures, and an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue--these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown Gormenghast Castle. Within its vast halls and serpentine corridors, the members of the Groan dynasty and their master Lord Sepulchrave grow increasingly out of touch with a changing world as they pass their days in unending devotion to meaningless rituals and arcane traditions. Meanwhile, an ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike rises by devious means to the post of Master of the Ritual while he maneuvers to bring down the Groans.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream: lush, fantastical, vivid; a symbol of dark struggle. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange creatures that inhibit Gormenghast.Breathtaking in its power and drenched in dark atmosphere, humor and intrigue, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a classic, one of the great works of 20th century British literature.

Author : G.P. Taylor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271154
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadowmancer written by G.P. Taylor and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowmancer takes you into a world of superstition, magic and witchcraft, where the ultimate sacrifice might even be life itself. Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the Universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphah, Kate, Thomas and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Packed full of history, folklore and smuggling, Shadowmancer is a tale of an epic battle that will grip both young and old. The thrills, suspense and danger are guaranteed to grab the attention and stretch imaginations to the limit.

Author : G. Peter Winnington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mervyn Peake's Vast Alchemies written by G. Peter Winnington and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Winnington follows Peake's life from his birth in China through his student years and a sojourn in an artists' colony on Sark, his marriage and his frustrating years as a soldier when he wished to be a war artist. Yet the 1940s, marked by a traumatic visit to newly liberated Belsen in 1945, were his most productive years. From the middle of the 1950s Parkinson's disease gradually prevented him from working and led to his premature death in 1968. --Book Jacket.

Author : T. Kingfisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936689590
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer in Orcus written by T. Kingfisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over protective single mother. Summer loves her mother and would never dream of running away, but wonders deep down if it wouldn't be nice to escape for a little while and do something adventurous...maybe? Baba Yaga comes along in her magical walking house and offers Summer her heart's desire. Summer has no idea what this might be, but with the lighting of a frog-shaped beeswax candle she finds herself transported to the strange would of Orcus with nothing but a weasel in her pocket. She's read a lot of fantasy books about people thrust into strange lands; but they usually seemed to have has some idea what they were supposed to do there." -- back cover

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144810419X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Titus Alone written by Mervyn Peake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY 'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S Lewis 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. '[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

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099528541
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy written by Mervyn Peake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. LewisEnter the world of Gormenghast. The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, cloisters and corridors as well as the eccentric and wayward subject. Things are changing in the castle and Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Titus Books written by Mervyn Peake and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340678220
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy in Darkness written by Mervyn Peake and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: