A young heir matures within a bleak, sprawling castle filled with intrigue in this epic gothic trilogy, featuring over 100 illustrations by the author.
Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novelsтАФTitus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus AloneтАФTitus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder.
Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn PeakeтАЩs birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings.
Praise for Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast Trilogy
тАЬ[PeakeтАЩs books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.тАЭ тАФC. S. Lewis
тАЬMervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work┬а.┬а.┬а. A classic of our age.тАЭ тАФRobertson Davies
тАЬ[A] magnificent ediface spun from thin air by a tortured genius.тАЭ тАФLiz Jensen, author of The Rapture
тАЬThis extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time.тАЭ тАФWashington Post Book World