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Lot of 2 MERVYN PEAKE Gormanghast+Titus Alone TRILOGY BOOKS II & III PB Vintage

Description: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ALL FIVE PICTURES ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM.WE CAN COMBINE SHIPPING TO SAVE YOU MONEY, IF YOU BUY MORE THAN ONE ITEM! Ask about our combined shipping discount or see details on the listing.TITUS ALONE Ballantine #73009 1st printing thus 1968. Illustrated by Peake. Gormanghast Book 3.Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with force and vividness of a dream--or a nightmare.GORMANGHAST Ballantine 73008 1968 1st printing thus. Illustrated plates. Gormanghast Book 2.This is the story of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast Castle, from age 7 to 17. As the story opens, Titus dreads the pre-ordained life of ritual that stretches before him. To Titus, Master of Ritual Barquentine and his apprentice Steerpike are the embodiment of all he wants to rebel against. An important sub-plot involves Titus at school, where he encounters the professors, especially Bellgrove, who becomes Headmaster of Gormenghast school.About the author:Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books, though the Titus books would be more accurate: the three works that exist were the beginning of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, following his protagonist Titus Groan from cradle to grave, but Peake's untimely death prevented completion of the cycle, which is now commonly but erroneously referred to as a trilogy. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J.R.R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ("Letters from a Lost Uncle"), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people. A collection of these drawings is still in the possession of his family. Although he gained little popular success in his lifetime, his work was highly respected by his peers, and his friends included Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene. His works are now included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Imperial War Museum.

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Book Title: Lot 2 GORMANGHAST+TITUS ALONE

Book Series: GORMANGHAST TRILOGY BOOKS 11 & 111

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Original Language: English

Edition: 1st revised printings

Vintage: Yes

Publication Year: 1968

Format: Mass market Paperback

Language: English

Illustrator: ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHOR MERVYN PEAKE, Cover illustrator Bob Pepper

Special Attributes: 1st printing BALLANTINE ILLUSTRATED EDITION

Author: Mervyn Peake

Features: Illustrated, FIRST PRINTING OF ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS

Genre: Fantasy

Topic: DARK FANTASY

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