Book List

Book List

Gormenghast:

A series of novles from the 40s and 50s by Mervyn Peake and finished by Maeve Gilmore.

1) Titus Groan (1946)

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In Volume 1 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

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2) Gormenghast (1950)

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Gormenghast #2
by Mervyn Peake

VOLUME IIOF ANEPIC TRILOGY."It can stand with the best that has been done in the English language."Chicago Daily News"Shimmering nets of language capture details of an epic story." The National Observ

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3) Titus Alone (1959)

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Gormenghast #3
by Mervyn Peake

In his last visionary satire, Peake chronicles atrocities and hilarities alike with the same deadly control that never waversIn the third of the Titus books, the seventy-seventh earl of Gormenghast ex

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4) Boy in Darkness (1956)

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Gormenghast #3.5
by Mervyn Peake

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5) Titus Awakes (1972)

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Gormenghast #4
by Maeve Gilmore

Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, "a classic of our age." In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dr

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1) Titus Groan (1946)

2) Gormenghast (1950)

3) Titus Alone (1959)

4) Boy in Darkness (1956)

5) Titus Awakes (1972)