Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast

Name: Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099552765
Price: 15.46 EUR
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By (author): Maeve Gilmore Mervyn Peake

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past.

Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.

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Weight: 202g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 23 Jun 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780099552765

About Maeve GilmoreMervyn Peake

Born in 1918 Maeve Gilmore was a painter sculptor and writer. She married Mervyn Peake author of the Gormenghast novels in 1937 and they had three children. She is the author of A World Away an account of her life with Peake. Anthony Burgess wrote of that book 'It is impossible not to be moved by Maeve Gilmore's memoir...The moral of Gilmore's exquisite and poignant book is that life is hell but we had better be grateful for the conoslations of love and art'. She died in August 2003. Mervyn Peake was a playwright painter poet illustrator short story writer and designer of theatrical costumes as well as a novelist. Among his many books are Gormenghast Titus Groan and Titus Alone.