June 2012 Guest Editor Joanne Harris on Gormenghast...
Dense, ominous, strange and compelling, Peake’s masterwork defies categorization, and continues to offer new insights and perspectives at every re-reading. The story of a community steeped in ritual, living out of time, it chronicles the birth and coming of age of Titus, Earl of Gormenghast, his struggle for identity in a world of traditions that have long since become meaningless, his fight against his destiny and his eventual confrontation with his arch-rival and nemesis, the twisted, ambitious Steerpike.
Books in The Gormenghast Trilogy:
1. Titus Groan
2. Gormenghast
3. Titus Alone
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Gormenghast is 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, and his eccentric and wayward subjects, according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.
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Gormenghast is 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, and his eccentric and wayward subjects, according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle.
The Gormenghast Trilogy features in the following genres: Science Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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The Gormenghast Trilogy was written by Mervyn Peake and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage
The Gormenghast Trilogy has 953 pages
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