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A full colour, re-originated edition of a forgotten classic by the author of "Gormenghast", to mark the centenary of his birth. It is illustrated on every page with Peake's eerie and original drawings.

Contains slapstick comedy, "The Wit To Woo, "The Cave" and "Noah's Ark", a play written for children. Celebrates the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth.

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Il reame di Gormenghast ha il suo centro in un agglomerato tirannico con le sembianze di un castello. Qui ogni antica bellezza si è corrotta in cupa fatiscenza: le mura sono sinistre "come banchine di moli", e le costruzioni si tengono tra loro "come carcasse di navi sfasciate". E qui, intorno al piccolo Tito, settantasettesimo conte, si muovono la gigantesca contessa Gertrude, la madre, dalle spalle affollate di uccelli e dallo spumoso strasc...

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A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast trilogy, which reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is Titus Groan, the seventy-seventh Earl, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. In this second volume, Titus comes of age within the walls of Gormenghast Castle and discovers ...

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's 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 dream--lush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle. At the center of everything is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the Gormenghast Castl...

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels, considered to be some of the greatest fantasy classics of all time. At their center is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. In this third volume, Titus turns against the iron discipline of Gormenghast Castle, abdicating his thro...

Enter the world of Gormenghast. The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, cloisters and corridors as well as his eccentric and wayward subjects. Over the course of these three novels-"Titus Groan, " "Gormenghast, " and" Titus Alone"--Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intr...

Classics of epic fantasy, Peakes series of Gormenghast novels represents one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of Gothic imagination. For the first time in years, the first book in this timeless series is available in an individual paperback volume, complete with new packaging.

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Quando, alla fine del secondo pannello della trilogia, il giovane Tito, signore di Gormenghast, trova la forza di strapparsi al suo reame, la cui bellezza si è ormai corrotta in cupa fatiscenza, le parole della madre - "Non esiste un altrove. Tutto conduce a Gormenghast" - sembrano richiudersi sulla sua fuga come una pietra tombale. Scoprirà che un altrove esiste, ma che è divorato non meno di Gormenghast dal Male: la città a cui approda è sol...

One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830 32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.

Continuing to mark 100 years since Mervyn Peake's birth, Naxos AudioBooks releases the second novel in the cycle series. Gormenghast follows protagonist Titus (now the 77th earl of Gormenghast) from the age of seven to seventeen, and describes his desire to break free from the physical and psychological constraints of the castle. Meanwhile, the Machiavellian Steerpike continues his dastardly rise to power, but will he succeed?

The second volume in the timeless fantasy trilogy that begins in "Titus Groan" is now available to a new generation of fantasy fans, who are sure to fall in love with this tour de force that ranks as one of the 20th centurys most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.