Titus Groan / Mervyn Peake ; with an introduction by Anthony Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1982.

Summary:

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. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual whose origins are lost in history and the castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern English fiction.

Notes:

First vol. of the author's Gormenghast trilogy.

ISBN:

0879511435

OCLC:

7998704