The Gormenghast Trilogy

Informationen zum Autor Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in Kuling, Central Southern China, where his father was a medical missionary. His education began in China and then continued at Eltham College in South East London, followed by the Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Subsequently he became an artist, married the painter Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and had three children. During the Second World War he established a reputation as a gifted book illustrator for Ride a Cock Horse (1940), The Hunting of the Snark (1941), and The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (1943). Titus Groan was published in 1946, followed in 1950 by Gormenghast . Among his other works are Shapes and Sounds (1941), Rhymes Without Reason (1944), Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948) and Mr Pye (1953). He also wrote a number of plays including The Wit to Woo (1957), which was met by critical failure. Titus Alone was published in 1959. Mervyn Peake died in 1968. Klappentext A new edition of the classic gothic fantasy series, with a new Halloween jacket design. Zusammenfassung Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his subjects, according to age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. He must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder and his longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

Product details

• Authors: Mervyn Peake
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780099288893
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928889-3
• No. of pages: 960
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 210 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Peake; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Peake
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Dark Fantasy, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, FICTION / Gothic, Speculative fiction, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Classic fiction