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 The Sunday Books.
""Mr Pye" offers a suitably eccentric introduction to the tiny and
determinedly unusual island of Sark . . . The dark humor,
eccentricity, hallucinatory elegance and intensity of the piece
seem typical of Peake." --"Guardian" (UK)
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
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
grotesque
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