Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141185590 (0141185597)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
An extraordinary collection of poems, plays, short stories and drawings, displaying something of Peake's extraordinary range, and also exposing recurring themes, especially islands, isolation and the longing for security. There is even a story he wrote when he was 11, though it has the very un-PC ti...