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Peake, Mervyn

Peake, Mervyn

Author Biography & Works

Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

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Books by Peake, Mervyn

Titus Groan

Titus Groan

(Ghormenghast) Start here

Titus Groan is the first book in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy and it opens with the birth of Titus, the heir to the imposing Gormenghast castle. It then proceeds to...

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Gormenghast

Gormenghast

(Ghormenghast)

A startling work of imagination that will evoke feeling when you read it. Reading Gormenghast is like feasting your eyes on a masterfully drawn painting -- you might not always...

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Titus Alone

Titus Alone

(Ghormenghast)

This stunning final chapter in the legendary Gormenghast Trilogy bring to a close one of the great classics of epic fantasy.

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Ghormenghast (cover not available)

Ghormenghast

A remarkable series of novels that helped defined what it means to be 'Gothic.' The novels are not so much about plot or story, but experience and setting. The locations,...

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