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The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp
Publisher: Overlook Press

It is a world in which ritual is a living thing that demands constant obedience from its citizens – not least from Titus Groan, the 77th earl of Gormenghast who must assume his role of responsibility. If you are unfamiliar with the castle Gormenghast, Titus Groan, Fuschia, Steerpike, Dr. I was drawn to these books as a teen by the cover of the 1986 Methuen edition of Titus Groan . Of those five, 2 are part of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. In Britain, the celebrations We begin with the birth of Titus, the seventy-seventh Earl of Groan. Product Details: Publisher: Weybright and Talley; Revised edition (1967) Language: English ASIN: B000HKGBIS Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches. Titus is heir to Titus Alone, the third in the trilogy, shatters the apparently self-contained world of the preceding volumes and evicts us from our crenellated perch. When I asked Sebastian what he thought made the Titus books endure to this day, he remarked that it was his father's sense of “timelessness” that marked him out: “He didn't write in any particular period in history yet it was a world in which we all inhabit and can relate to. I've always found it more strange than readable, where the first two books were the reverse. Titus Groan (The Gormenghast Trilogy, Vol. In many ways Titus Alone is for me the most interesting of the three books Mervyn Peake wrote concerning the young Lord of Gormenghast, even if it lacks the compelling plot of the first two. On both sides of the Atlantic, there have been new illustrated editions of the Gormenghast novels and a new epilogue, Titus Awakes, has surfaced, written by Peake's widow, Maeve Gilmore. The illustration by Peter Harding is obviously quite excellent:. Prunesquallor et al., the books are Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Publishers love to describe a book by what has gone before, so that any pitch of a new novel inevitably becomes something along the lines of “Captain Caveman meets Anna Karenina.” They believe that they can only get a book into It was a section from Chapter 19 of Gormenghast where Titus Groan first encounters The Thing, a Kaspar Hauser-esque wild child who has been deserted and left to her own devices in the forest. Mervyn Peake, 1995, Overlook Press, 1168 pgs.