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Titus Alone
Mervyn Peake
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Description for Titus Alone
Paperback. Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a bustling city. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
DISCOVER THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S Lewis
Titus Groan, now almost twenty, escapes from Castle Gormenghast, 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749394875
SKU
V9780749394875
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99-99
About Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake was born in 1911. He is perhaps most famous for the 'Gormenghast' trilogy which were published between 1946 and 1959 - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone. He has also written a book for children, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, several volumes of poetry and was a gifted book illustrator. He died in 1968.
Reviews for Titus Alone
[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
A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination
The ... Read more
Anthony Burgess
A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination
The ... Read more