The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : 54,9 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 : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : 962 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Maeve Gilmore,Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0140028900

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Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429966313

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Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe Pdf

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth. "Brilliant . . . terrific . . . a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"-Philadelphia Inquirer "The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe's] preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mervyn Peake,P. J. Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : 1160 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417591730

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Mr. Pye by Mervyn Lawrence Peake Pdf

Author : Mervyn Peake,Maeve Gilmore
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590206932

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Peake's Progress by Mervyn Peake,Maeve Gilmore Pdf

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781613124635

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Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 0413777138

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Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Lost in the frozen polar wastes, an explorer writes a journal of his extraordinary exploits, preparing to send it to the nepheew he has never seen.

Author : Sasa Stanisic
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.