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The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) by Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp

The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp ebook
Page: 1168
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0879516284, 9780879516284
Publisher: Overlook Press

So begins Titus Groan, the first book in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake; a novel that distinguishes itself by its hauntingly dark and sumptuous prose. The third volume in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy. The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone). The first time I tried reading Titus Alone I got about fifty pages in before giving up in frustration. The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) by Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp. Titus Groan July 9, 2011 will be the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mervyn Peake, the author of three remarkable fantasy novels: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. I've always found it more strange than readable, where the first two books were the reverse. Gormenghast is the second book in the fantastic Gormenghast trilogy. Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone - marielhou - FC2The Washington Post Book World. The second, Gormenghast, was published in 1950 while the third, Titus Alone, was published in 1959, three years after he stared to suffer from Parkinson's. The Gormenghast series, which is often wrongly called a trilogy but was in fact intended to be a longer series, followed the path of Titus Groan from his birth, as heir to a crumbling medieval castle, to his encounters in a modern world of skyscrapers and inventions. The Gormenghast trilogy (as Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone are slightly inaccurately known) seems at first sight out of step with its times. Peake started writing the first, Titus Groan, in 1940.