Gormenghast

Name: Gormenghast
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Mervyn Peake
ISBN: 9781843795391

Author: Mervyn Peake

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Abridged: 4 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 03/28/2011

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Titus, Earl of Groan, is becoming aware of a world beyond the suffocating confines of Gormenghast, bound by centuries of tradition into a pattern of decaying rituals. He yearns for freedom. Meanwhile the amoral Steerpike continues to forge his way into a position of power, leaving death in his wake and nearly dying in the process. But his rise places him at odds with Titus himself; and only one will survive. This award-winning sequel displays all of Mervyn Peake’s imaginative brilliance in creating and sustaining the extraordinary world of Gormenghast.

About Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911â€“1968) is an author best known for his Gormenghast fantasy fiction trilogy. He also published illustrated verse and short stories for children, plays, short stories, and novels. He was awarded the W. H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. He was born and raised in China until the age of eleven. He went on to study at the Royal Academy School in London, where he developed as an artist, designer, and writer. He worked as an artist on the island of Sark for several years and then returned to London to hold several exhibitions of his artwork.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on August 26, 2021

What an odd fantasy! No swords, no sorcery, no elves, no thieves, no imaginary beasts, no multiple planes of existence . . . nothing but a cavernous castle peopled by eccentrics with Dickensian names (Sepulchrave, Prunesquallor, Swelter, Flay) whose lives are determined by centuries--perhaps milleni......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on May 28, 2015

I know of no author in all of the English language who is like Peake, or who could aspire to be like him. His voice is as unique as that of Milton, Bierce, Conrad, Blake, Donne, or Eliot, and as fully-realized. I am a hard and critical man, cynical and not easily moved, but there are passages in the......more

Goodreads review by Vit on August 07, 2024

Titus Groan is a charming and hypnotic story… And the foremost marvel of the tale is its language – it is otherworldly and miraculous. Good and evil: good is open but fragile, evil is strong and it hides… Good and evil collide. Titus Groan is a conflict of the new and the old, a clash of the newfangle......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

As I was reading this, I kept thinking of all the great and richly-detailed fantasies I've ever read, from Tad Williams to Robin Hobb, and then I just had to look up when this book had come out. You see, I have this thing. I like to read a book, or at least books that are considered classics or the b......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 30, 2010

Mervyn Peake was one of those gifted people you burningly resent, he was a brilliant artist and then he thought oh I need something else to occupy my time when I'm not doing brilliant drawings and paintings, hmm what can I do, ah yes I'll write one of the century's greatest fantasies in one of the m......more