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A Child of Bliss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

A Child of Bliss

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Mervyn Peake, a Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Mervyn Peake, a Life

  • Categories: Art

Yorke engages in many of the same endeavors as British novelist, story writer, playwright, poet, book illustrator, and painter Peake (1911-68), but is also a biographer. In all his genres, he says, Peake either predated or postdated the fashion--for example his fantasy novels later became popular, but his representational paintings maintain their obscurity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mervyn Peake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Mervyn Peake

This study traces Mervyn Peake's evolution from aesthetically Gothic writer to socially aware Dark Romantic through an investigation of his theme of the relativity of perception. Its contents include an in-depth analysis of the metamorphic fluidity of identity revealed in Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959;1970), with a detailed examination of the latter's prepublication sources and its links with Holocaust literature and dystopian science fiction. This close reading of the Titus novels, places Peake firmly in the postmodernist tradition.

The Gormenghast Trilogy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 962

The Gormenghast Trilogy

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.

Mr Pye
  • Language: en

Mr Pye

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Titus Groan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Titus Groan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-12
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  • Publisher: Random House

'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

Peake's Progress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Peake's Progress

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 964

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

Peake's books 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.S. LewisEnter the world of Gormenghast. 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, cloisters and corridors as well as the eccentric and wayward subject. Things are changing in the castle and Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.

The Voice of the Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

The Voice of the Heart

The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels – recently serialized to great acclaim by the BBC – stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. In The Voice of the Heart, G. Peter Winnington, the world’s foremost expert on Peake, sets his subject’s fiction in context with the poetry, plays and book illustrations which are less well known. He traces recurrent motifs through Peake’s works (islands, animals, and loneliness, for example) and explores in detail Peake’s long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo. Through close readings of all these elements of Peake’s oeuvre, Winnington is ultimately able to offer unparalleled insight into one of British literature’s most vibrant imaginations.

Titus Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Titus Alone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

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