Description
A work of scintillating creativity and imagination, Peake’s gothic phantasmagoria is fantasy writing for people who don’t like fantasy. Steerpike’s insidious social climbing and the compromised coming of age of Titus Groan are cradled in electrifying prose, whilst the surrealistic depiction of the eponymous, crumbling castle will haunt the reader’s imagination forever.
'[Peake's 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' - C. S. Lewis
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.
Book Details
Format: |
Paperback |
Number of Pages: |
960 |
ISBN: |
9780099288893 |
Published: |
1 Apr 1999 |
Dimensions: |
209 x 146 x 43 (mm) |
Language: |
English |
