Mervyn Peake: 12 books

Published to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, this comprehensive edition of the poetry of Mervyn Peake includes pieces that touch on some of the most significant historical moments of the 20th century. His celebrated works range from the unemployment epidemic in pre-war Britain to the horrors...

Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake's widow, wrote Titus Awakes based on those pages left behind by Peake. Titus Awakes picks up the story of Titus, 77th Earl of Groan, as he wanders through the modern world. Fans of the Gormenghast novels will relish this continuation of the world Peake created and of...

Published to coincide with the celebration of this beloved poet's centenary, this volume contains all the poems and illustrations previously published in Mervyn Peake's much-loved Book of Nonsense in addition to 40 unpublished works discovered in manuscripts and various uncollected sources. Accompanied...

Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels—Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone— Titus must...

Apriamo questo libro e ci troviamo in un mondo parallelo al nostro. È Gormenghast, un immane castello, che nessuno dei suoi abitatori ha percorso in tutti i suoi anfratti. Un tempo, doveva essere pieno di tinte squillanti: ora è un intreccio di crepe, e le tinte sfumano fra grigio, verde lichene,...

A 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, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across...

In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence. John Constable famously 'pulled...

Quando, alla fine del secondo pannello della trilogia, il giovane Tito, signore di Gormenghast, trova la forza di strapparsi al suo reame, la cui bellezza si è ormai corrotta in cupa fatiscenza, le parole della madre – «Non esiste un altrove. Tutto conduce a Gormenghast» – sembrano richiudersi...

As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power.Inside...

Soverchiato dalla cima ad artiglio e dalle giogaie scoscese dell’omonimo monte, il reame di Gormenghast ha il suo centro in un immane agglomerato tirannico con le sembianze di un castello. Qui ogni antica bellezza si è corrotta in cupa fatiscenza: le mura sono sinistre «come banchine di moli»,...

As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust...

Un monument de la littérature de l'imaginaire, une œuvre culte. Titus d'Enfer (1946) – Titus dans les ténèbres (nouvelle, 1956) – Gormenghast (1950) – Titus errant (1959) Dans le château de Gormenghast, aux proportions si démesurées que des parties entières restent inexplorées,...