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Gormenghast
- Author
- Mervyn Peake
- Narrator
- Saul Reichlin
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 10 March 2016
- Run Time
- 22 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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BOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY
Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.
Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony Burgess
©1968 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
Critics Review
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Mervyn Peake is a master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination
The Times
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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. [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great work...a classic of our age
Robertson Davies
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[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. Lewis
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Details
- Author
- Mervyn Peake
- Narrator
- Saul Reichlin
- Duration
- 22 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 March 2016
- ISBN
- 9781473546172
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical fantasy, Fiction: gothic, Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by PenguinBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony Burgess©1968 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
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