June 2012 Guest Editor Joanne Harris on Gormenghast...
Dense, ominous, strange and compelling, Peake’s masterwork defies categorization, and continues to offer new insights and perspectives at every re-reading. The story of a community steeped in ritual, living out of time, it chronicles the birth and coming of age of Titus, Earl of Gormenghast, his struggle for identity in a world of traditions that have long since become meaningless, his fight against his destiny and his eventual confrontation with his arch-rival and nemesis, the twisted, ambitious Steerpike.
Books in The Gormenghast Trilogy:
1. Titus Groan
2. Gormenghast
3. Titus Alone
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Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his eccentric and wayward subjects, according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.
The Gormenghast Trilogy features in the following genres: Science Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
The Gormenghast Trilogy is available in Paperback
The Gormenghast Trilogy was written by Mervyn Peake and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage
The Gormenghast Trilogy has 953 pages
£22.50
