<div>A young earl&rsquo;s future in a sprawling castle could be changed by a feral girl and a cunning servant in this acclaimed gothic fantasy trilogy&rsquo;s second entry. Titus Groan is seven years old, lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder . . . Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake&rsquo;s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan&mdash;it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. Praise for Gormenghast &ldquo;Gormenghast is must-read fiction, that&rsquo;s all. You&rsquo;ll finish it with a small spike of regret stabbing at your heart, and a desire to start again at page one the moment the back cover is closed. It&rsquo;s a tale to be cherished for life. This is as good as it gets.&rdquo; &mdash;Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Book Reviews</div>

Gormenghast

<div>A young heir matures within a bleak, sprawling castle filled with intrigue in this epic gothic trilogy, featuring over 100 illustrations by the author. Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels&mdash;Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone&mdash;Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century&#39;s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake&rsquo;s birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake&#39;s dazzling drawings. Praise for Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast Trilogy &ldquo;[Peake&rsquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;C. S. Lewis &ldquo;Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work . . . A classic of our age.&rdquo; &mdash;Robertson Davies &ldquo;[A] magnificent ediface spun from thin air by a tortured genius.&rdquo; &mdash;Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture &ldquo;This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time.&rdquo; &mdash;Washington Post Book World</div>

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

<div>“A startling and unusual creation by an author who had imagination to burn and burn again . . . A feat of storytelling unmatched in wit or imagination.” —SFF180 The basis for the 2000 BBC series Now in development by Showtime As the novel opens, 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 the force and vividness of a dream—or a nightmare. This final installment in the Gormenghast Trilogy is a fantastic triumph—a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm. Praise the Gormenghast Trilogy “There is nothing in literature like Mervyn Peake’s remarkable Gormenghast novels . . . They were crafted by a master, who was also an artist, and they take us to an ancient castle as big as a city, with heroes and villains and people larger than life that are impossible to forget.” —Neil Gaiman “[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 “Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work.” —Robertson Davies, New York Times-bestselling author</div>

Titus Alone

<div>First in the classic gothic trilogy. &ldquo;A masterpiece . . . a moody, melancholy comedy with an underlying wit and profundity that cannot be denied.&rdquo; &mdash;Speculiction The basis for the 2000 BBC series Now in development by Showtime As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power. Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake&rsquo;s extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. Praise the Gormenghast Trilogy &ldquo;Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work.&rdquo; &mdash;Robertson Davies, New York Times-bestselling author &ldquo;A sumptuous, poetic epic . . . considered by some to have an equal or even greater degree of importance to the development of modern fantasy as Tolkien&rsquo;s The Lord of the Rings.&rdquo; &mdash;SFF180 &ldquo;Mervyn Peake&rsquo;s gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle . . . This true classic is a feast of words unlike anything else in the world of fantasy. Those who explore Gormenghast castle will be richly rewarded.&rdquo; &mdash;SFF Book Reviews</div>

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