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The Gormenghast Trilogy 1: Titus Groan Mervyn Peake
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Posted on March 1, 2012 by John Guy Collick · Facebook · Twitter · Email His Gormenghast trilogy, of which Titus Groan is the first book, is best described as Charles Dickens on Acid. I knew that Peake had If you are unfamiliar with the castle Gormenghast, Titus Groan, Fuschia, Steerpike, Dr. I originally bought Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy back in the 1960s, long before Amazon was a twinkle in anyone's eye, so I'm not sure how they/it (i.e. Last week, I finished reading the Gormenghast trilogy. Product Details: Publisher: Ballantine Books; Later printing edition (1973). When Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast was first published in 1950, readers got to the end of the book and found that Titus Groan rides away from the ancient ancestral home that had been the setting for Peake's epic tale of As a dramatist, having spent many months locked in the stifling, ritual-bound world of Gormenghast castle, I felt as anxious and uncertain as our hero when we had to turn our backs on the great sprawling castle and head off into the unknown. Prunesquallor et al., the books are Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. So last weekend I was invited to a play of Gormenghast: Titus Groan by Blackshaw Theatre at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden. It's no surprise when you find out that Titus Groan and Gormenghast, the first two books in the trilogy, were written during and just after the Second World War. Some Amazon web server at some mysterious location) knew that I would be interested in this book.