The Gormenghast Trilogy 1: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The Gormenghast Trilogy 1: Titus Groan Mervyn Peake ebook
Page: 496
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1585679070, 9781585679072
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I wish I had time to go into the absolute wonders of Mervyn Peake's first novel in the Gormenghast trilogy, Titus Groan. Titus Groan (Gormenghast trilogy). I've never read anything else quite like it. Titus Groan contains the most vivid writing I have ever read. It is a thing of wonder, beauty, humor, horror and fascination. Writer Mervyn Peake was When young Titus Groan is born as the 77th Earl of Gormenghast, things do begin to change as he grows up to be a young man who rejects the mindless rituals of the castle and longs for freedom beyond the castle walls. Titus Groan, the book, formed the first part of Mervin Peake's imaginative, haunting "Gormenghast" trilogy, one of post-war Britain's finest literary achievements. In my late teens I was obsessed with his work, starting with the Gormenghast trilogy but quickly embracing his poetry and art. Posted on March 1, 2012 by John Guy Collick · Facebook · Twitter · Email His Gormenghast trilogy, of which Titus Groan is the first book, is best described as Charles Dickens on Acid. What can you tell us about this novel and its move from book to stage? I haven't looked at any of it for ages, but particularly remember (Page of manuscript from Titus Groan showing Fuschia and Steerpike; it seems Peake sketched his characters as he wrote; taken from the Gormenghast website which is stuffed full of information about Peake). The 50th production of William Head on Stage's [WHoS] thirty year history is an adaptation of British novelist Mervyn Peake's trilogy Gormenghast. The one my readers are more likely to have seen was used by the quirky author Mervyn Peake to raise the curtain on his very weird gothic fantasy, Titus Groan, the first book of the Gormenghast trilogy. You have seen nothing like it before … but after … you see things like it everywhere ….