Peake's command of language and unique style set the tone and shape of an intricate, slow-moving world of ritual and stasis: The Gormenghast royal family, the castle's decidedly eccentric staff, and the peasant artisans living around the dreary, crumbling structure make up the cast of characters in these engrossing stories. The trilogy continues with the novels Gormenghast and Titus Alone, and all three books are bound together in this single-volume edition. “This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time.Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle.
“ magnificent ediface spun from thin air by a tortured genius.” -Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture
“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. “ are actual additions to life they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.” -C. **Praise for Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast Trilogy This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings. Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. Over the course of these three novels- Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone-Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. A young heir matures within a bleak, sprawling castle filled with intrigue in this epic gothic trilogy, featuring over 100 illustrations by the author.
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