

Titus Groan
Author: Mervyn Peake
Narrator: Rupert Degas
Abridged: 5 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/31/2011
Author: Mervyn Peake
Narrator: Rupert Degas
Abridged: 5 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/31/2011
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.
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
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
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
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