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Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman

From Shelf: The Big Read Top 200 Novels in the UK (2003)

Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. This work is a sequel to "Titus Groan".

'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony BurgessBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
512
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780749394820
Published Date:
5/2/1998
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 30mm
Weight:
352g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £14.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780749394820


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