Gormenghast

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• Deeper into Mervyn Peake

  The first two volumes of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy were published in 1946 and 1950, but by 1954, when I was first alerted to them by a school-friend, Peake had entered what his first biographer John Watney called ‘a doldrum period’. Overtake ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Thu, 11 Aug 2011

• Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore and The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake: review

  Titus Awakes was begun by Mervyn Peake’s widow two years after his death in 1968. Among his papers she found what she assumed to be the beginning of a fourth book in the Gormenghast series; a few hundred words only, but the seed from which she wrote ... (read full critics)

  telegraph.co.uk published on Thu, 7 Jul 2011

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• Gormenghast

  that mervyn peake's health was suffering during the latter stages of the trilogy is not in question neither is the fact that his failing faculties seriously affected the tone of the series, however nothing can deny this work its rightful place as a masterpiece of fiction.

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• English Books
• Paperback 512 Pages
• ISBN-10: 074939482X
• ISBN-13: 9780749394820
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Oct 06, 2005
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libri Italiani

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