The Gormenghast Trilogy

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409007074

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Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Pdf

'Gormenghast is, to my mind and to my taste, a perfect creation' Neil Gaiman Welcome to the world of Gormenghast, the classic fantasy series from the imagination of Mervyn Peake 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 are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone. 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New Yorker

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409019794

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The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls. 'A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination' The Times 'Dark, dense, baroque and hauntingly beautiful. Peake's lush prose and imagery are a pleasure to any lover of the beauty of the written word,' Carlos Ruiz-Zafron, author of The Shadow of the Wind

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879516283

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The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake Pdf

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, an array of bizarre creatures, and an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue--these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown Gormenghast Castle. Within its vast halls and serpentine corridors, the members of the Groan dynasty and their master Lord Sepulchrave grow increasingly out of touch with a changing world as they pass their days in unending devotion to meaningless rituals and arcane traditions. Meanwhile, an ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike rises by devious means to the post of Master of the Ritual while he maneuvers to bring down the Groans.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream: lush, fantastical, vivid; a symbol of dark struggle. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange creatures that inhibit Gormenghast.Breathtaking in its power and drenched in dark atmosphere, humor and intrigue, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a classic, one of the great works of 20th century British literature.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Betrayal
ISBN : 9780099288893

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The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Pdf

One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century: Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Earl Titus Groan is lord and heir. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448104192

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Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake Pdf

THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY 'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S Lewis In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, 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, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. 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. '[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

Author : Maeve Gilmore,Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780099552765

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Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore,Mervyn Peake Pdf

A final volume of the classic Gormenghast novels, produced from recently discovered manuscripts written by Peake's wife and based on his outlines, follows Titus's nightmarish departure from Castle Gormenghast.

Author : Mervyn Peake,P. J. Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0340678224

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Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake,P. J. Lynch Pdf

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0140028900

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Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513297200

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Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell Pdf

Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances (1921) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances is one of Cabell’s best-known works of fiction, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. “They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days when miracles were as common as fruit pies, young Manuel was a swineherd, living modestly in attendance upon the miller's pigs. They tell also that Manuel was content enough: he knew not of the fate which was reserved for him.” Unsatisfied with life as a lowly swineherd, Manuel follows his heart in pursuit of place where true happiness exists. A proponent of medieval chivalry, he encounters gods and goddesses, kings and queens, as he passes from one otherworldly realm to the next. As the chains of the past begin to fall away, Manuel discovers that through determination and valor, he can excel the circumstances of his humble birth. Set in a fictionalized France of the 13th century, Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances is a captivating story of fantasy and adventurer featuring a flawed hero whose mythical world is not entirely different from our own. Cabell’s work has long been described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances, however, is to understand that the issues therein—the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and women—were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of James Branch Cabell’s Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Alex Pheby
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250817235

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Mordew by Alex Pheby Pdf

Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy. God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew. The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength—and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it. So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him—and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529194975

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The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Pdf

ENTER THE CRUMBLING WORLD OF GORMENGHAST... 'A modern classic' Anthony Burgess 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New Yorker 'A perfect creation' Neil Gaiman Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls. 'Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before' C. S. Lewis

Author : Sasa Stanisic
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951142834

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Where You Come From by Sasa Stanisic Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award A Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus, and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month “Inventive, funny and moving.” —The New York Times Book Review Translated from the German by Damion Searls Winner of the German Book Prize, Saša Stanišic’s inventive and surprising novel asks: what makes us who we are? In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memories, in coincidences, in choices, and in a dragons’ den. Translated by Damion Searls, it’s a novel about homelands, both remembered and imagined, lost and found. A book that playfully twists form and genre with wit and heart to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000123951042

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The Titus Books by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Author : Mervyn Lawrence Peake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417591730

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Mr. Pye by Mervyn Lawrence Peake Pdf

Author : Wendy Walker
Publisher : Tough Poets Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578995166

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The Secret Service by Wendy Walker Pdf

First published in 1992, Wendy Walker's The Secret Service takes place in an alternative 19th century. A young king sits on the English throne and is about to take a bride. His Majesty's Secret Service has learned of a plot against the royal couple: three nobles from the Continent, all passionate connoisseurs of the arts, are ready to release their dastardly attack in an effort to topple the current dynasty. The agents of the Secret Service, apprised of the threat, have formulated a technology that enables them to masquerade as objects-the objects most desired by the connoisseurs-in order to spy upon them undetected. Thus Polly, the protagonist, is sent abroad as a crystal goblet, while her two male colleagues perform their missions as a rose bush and a bronze statue of Thisbe. Once on the mainland, they discover, to their great peril, the full scope of the villains' designs.