Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)

by Mervyn Peake

Neil Gaiman (Introduction)

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'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony Burgess

BOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY

Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. 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, manipulation and murder.

Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

  • ISBN10 074939482X
  • ISBN13 9780749394820
  • Publish Date 5 February 1998 (first published December 1968)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Vintage Classics
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 512
  • Language English