by Mervyn Peake · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099288893
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«The Gormenghast Trilogy» is the gothic fantasy trilogy by Mervyn Peake, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (976 pages, in English).
Set in the castle of Gormenghast, the story follows Titus Groan, seventy-seventh Earl of a colossal, labyrinthine domain ruled by ancestral rituals. Amid conspiracies, betrayal and eccentric characters, Titus must confront his own desire to escape the castle walls.
This volume brings together the three titles of the Gormenghast saga: Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.
For readers of gothic fantasy and twentieth-century English literary classics seeking an oppressive atmosphere.
Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
