Titus Awakes

Name: Titus Awakes
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Maeve Gilmore
ISBN: 9781455825318

Author: Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake

Series: Gormenghast #4

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/06/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats—snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life—Titus’ bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past.Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the writer and painter Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wreade1872

Its hard to know what to say about this one. The writing is good in places but can also be a bit monotonous or at least repetitious. It does resemble Titus Alone to a degree, although not to its credit being almost as random and fragmentary as that work. However i enjoyed it more than my score might......more

Goodreads review by Simon

Also published on my blog here The Gormenghast trilogy, by far Mervyn Peake's best known work as a writer, has many fans, including myself. And fans always want more, so we were intrigued when the publication of Titus Awakes was announced last year. Maeve Gilmore was Peake's widow (and, like her husb......more

Goodreads review by Raghav

There are many instances in literary history where the authorial mantle has been passed. Tolkien's son broadened our knowledge of Middle-Earth from his father's notes; Frank Herbert's prodigy did the same, scribing altogether fresh Dune novels. In each such case the successor tries to at least emula......more