β Peake, Mervyn
π Fiction
π
2007
π The Overlook Press
π English
β 955 KB
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Titus Awakes
β Scribed by Mervyn Peake
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Mervyn PeakeΒΉs Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, Β³a classic of our age.Β² In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dream--lush, fantastical, and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. ParkinsonΒΉs disease took PeakeΒΉs life in 1968, depriving his fans of the fourth and final volume of the series, Titus Awakes except for a few tantalizing pages, after which his writing became indecipherable. Or so it seemed.
In January of 2010, PeakeΒΉs granddaughter found four composition books in her attic. They contained the fabled Titus Awakes in its entirety. Peake had outlined the novel for his wife, Maeve Gilmore, who had at last finished PeakeΒΉs masterpiece.
It starts with Titus leaving Castle Gormenghast. Peake wrote: Β³With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast mountain, and from everything that belonged to his home. That night, as Titus lay asleep...
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