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. These gothic fantasy novels were written between 19, and British author Peake also provided the evocative illustrations. Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. The novels are peopled with a host of memorable characters such as Titus's sister Fuchsia and the crafty Steerpike, while the shadowy, monstrous castle itself surrounded by the mud huts of the 'outer dwellings' are brilliantly created.
This epic trilogy centring on Titus, 77th Earl of Groan and heir to the delapidated castle of Gormenghast, is an imaginative tour de force. Lewis The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works to come out of the age that produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - Anthony Burgess * Spectator * It is a very, very great work.a classic of our age - Robertson Davies 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. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003Ī master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination * The Times * 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.
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
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