Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
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Titus Groan
The Gormenghast Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Mervyn Peake

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 17 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2010

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Fantasy

Synopsis

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkiens Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. Peake has created a world where all is like a dreamlush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle. At the center of everything is the seventyseventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. When he is crowned, he is called ChildInheritor of the rivers, of the Tower of Flints and the dark recesses beneath cold stairwaysChildInheritor of the spring breezes that blow in from the jarl forests and of the autumn misery in petal, scale, and wing.

About Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911–1968) 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

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

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 HaMiT

تا یه جاهایی از کتاب که رسیده بودم دیگه ذهنم درگیر این موضوع شد که چرا این کتاب در مقایسه با ارباب حلقه‌ها تا این اندازه کمتر دیده شده. درسته آثار تالکین و دنیای عظیمی که خلق کرده محشره ولی یه همچین کتابی که 8 سال قبل از یاران حلقه منتشر شده هم دیگه نباید اینقدر مهجور میموند حتی خودمم قبل از اینکه نش......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

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

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