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Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Category: Classics | Series: 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 prim ...Show more
Gormenghast Trilogy Illustrated Edition by Mervyn Peake; Michael Moorcock (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels--Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone-- Titus must contend w ...Show more
Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake
Category: Classics
Packed with wonderful characters and cameos, Mr Pye is a tour de force, a battle between good and evil which turnns into an hilarious romp through the prejudices of a close-knit society.
Peake's Progress - Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake by Mervyn Peake; Maeve Gilmore
Category: Fiction
Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, "The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs;" the early "Mr. Slaughterboard," which foreshadows the "Titus" books; two plays, "T ...Show more
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Gormenghast Trilogy
Enter the world of Gormenghast... Gormanghast is 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 ritua ...Show more
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Category: Classics
Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels--Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone-- Titus must contend w ...Show more
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Category: Classics | Series: Gormenghast Trilogy
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels, considered to be some of the greatest fantasy classics of all time. At their center is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that fo ...Show more
Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake; Maeve Gilmore; Brian Sibley (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
"When Peake died in 1968, he left behind the start of a fourth Gormenghast book, Titus Awakes. His wife, the writer and artist Maeve Gilmore, completed the manuscript. The book continues the story of the Titus, the 77th Earl of Groan, as he wanders in the modern world and finds his final resting place i ...Show more
Titus Groan (#1 The Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake
Category: Classics | Series: Gormenghast Trilogy
As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born- he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There ...Show more
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