Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a playwright, painter, poet,
illustrator, short-story writer, and designer of theatrical
costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the
Gormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone).
Overlook publishes these alongside the posthumous sequel Titus
Awakes, Peake treasuries such as Peake's Progress, and his final
novel, Mr. Pye in paperback for the first time.
Michael Moorcock is the author of numerous novels including the
acclaimed Elric series. He has received the Nebula, World Fantasy,
and British Science Fiction awards and is a Grandmaster of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He lives in
Bastrop, Texas.
"Mervyn Peake may be best celebrated for his epic Gormenghast
series and his illustrations of Treasure Island and Alice in
Wonderland, but his work with Michael Moorcock in "The Sunday
Books" offers stories of pirates, shipwrecks and more and comes
with fine drawings. Sixty years after their creation Michael
Moorcock invented stories and songs to go with Peake's drawings and
thus "The Sunday Books" evolved to mark the centenary of Peake's
birth. Families and all ages will find the color drawings and fun
action compelling: fantasy at its best!" "Midwest Book Review"
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"It is a match made in fantasy heaven: legendary genre author
Michael Moorcock has written a series of verses to go with
illustrations drawn by the late Gormenghast creator Mervyn Peake to
entertain his children." --"The Guardian" (UK)
The Sunday Books", which recalls both Babar and "Where the Wild
Things Are"." --"The New Yorker"'s Book Bench Blog
"An intimate window into the home life of a celebrated fantasist."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
Praise for Mervyn Peake:
?A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary
imagination.? --"The New Yorker"
?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.? --Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy
?[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
?The true fantasy classic of our time.? --"The Washington Post"
?Peake's style is marvelous... His inventiveness, his ingenuity,
and his humor are astonishing.? --"San Francisco Chronicle"
?Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but fans of
Mervyn Peake's Titus trilogy maintain that this extravagant epic
about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian
grotesques
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