Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake
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Titus Alone

Author: Mervyn Peake

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Abridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 06/27/2011


Synopsis

Titus Groan has fled the rambling, ruined and ruinous castle of Gormenghast, desperate for a view of the world beyond. But he wasn’t prepared for this. Satellites, death-rays, sinister policemen and underworld outcasts live in a nightmarish contemporary city that feels like something by Wells, Burroughs or Philip K. Dick. Threatened and lost, he begins to miss the home he left; but surely he won’t be tempted back? Titus Alone is a completely unexpected development, its bizarre and absurd satirical vision placing the dangers of progressive modernity against the deadening force of tradition.

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