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Titus Alone

78.6% complete
1959
2024
1 time
Fantastic fiction
Fantasy fiction
Groan, Titus (Fictitious character) - Fiction
122 chapters
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 Gormenghast*
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Gormenghast*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of novles from the 40s and 50s by Mervyn Peake and finished by Maeve Gilmore.

1) Titus Groan
2) Gormenghast
3) Titus Alone
4) Titus Awakes
Copyright © the Estate of Mervyn Peake, 1959, 1970
FOR MAEVE
To north, south, east or west, turning at will, it was not long before the landmarks fled him.
May contain spoilers
With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast Mountain, and from everything that belonged to his home.
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Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 26-Jun-2024

Publications

 01-Jan-1985
Penguin Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1985
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
£2.50
Pages*:
263
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   24 Jun 2024 - 25 Jun 2024
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
33346
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-140-03091-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-140-03091-4
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Alan Lee  - Cover Artist
In his last visionary satire, Peake chronicles atrocities and hilarities alike with the same deadly control that never wavers

In the third of the Titus books, the seventy-seventh earl of Gormenghast exiles himself from the mad rites of his ancestral home to wander in the world at large, and discovers that in many ways it is more strange and frightening than Gormenghast itself.

Peake's lurid vision is peopled with dark and troublesome denizens: melancholic Muzzlehatch; the fading Juno; the spicy Cheeta; a galaxy of worrying strangers that inhabit the ominous Under-River; the fearful but arrogant Titus himself.

'Everything Mervyn Peake did, he did with a passion controlled and channelled so delicately it was almost frightening to experience... [he was] an artist of wit, intelligence, humanity, boundless creative gifts and a deliberately conscious, almost aggressive simplicity' - Michael Moorcock

This volume is part of a trilogy called the Titus books (also known by some as the Gormenghast trilogy).
In reading order:
TITUS GROAN
GORMENGHAST
TITUS ALONE
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Notes and Comments:
First published by Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959
Revised edition simultaneously published in hardback by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in paperback by Penguin Books 1970
Reprinted in Penguin Books 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980
Reissued as a King Penguin 1981
Reprinted 1983
Reprinted in Penguin Books 1983, 1985

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 30-Nov-2023
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Audiobook
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Date Issued:
30-Nov-2023
Format:
Audiobook
Cover Price:
£18.03
Length:
7 hrs 33 min (274 pages)
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
33381
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Robert Whitfield  - Narration
From audible.com:

In Volume 3 of the classic Gormenghast Trilogy, a doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of Gormenghast Castle. This trilogy, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of everything is the 77th Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom.

In this third volume, Titus turns against the iron discipline of Gormenghast's ritual and sets forth on an uncertain quest - to find himself. His pilgrimage leads to encounters with mysteriously omnipotent, ruthless police, and a battle to the death with Veil, a gaunt ogre with a body like whips and a face that moves "like the shiftings of the gray slime of the pit". Titus, in his quest for independence from his legacy, despite the fantastical trappings of his odyssey, captures successfully the humanistic conception of contemporary man.
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Notes and Comments:
©1967, 1968 Mervyn Peake ℗2000 Blackstone Audiobooks
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01-Jan-1985
Penguin Books
Mass Market Paperback

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30-Nov-2023
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Audiobook

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Author(s)

 Mervyn Peake
Birth: 09 Jul 1911 Kuling, Jiangxi, China
Death: 17 Nov 1968 Burcot, Oxfordshire, England, UK

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