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Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two))

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Description for Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two)) Paperback. Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is 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. This work is a sequel to "Titus Groan". Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 372.

'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony Burgess

BOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749394820
SKU
V9780749394820
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Mervyn Peake
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two))
Mervyn Peake is a master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination
The Times
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. [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two))


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