This contains a novella, Boy in Darkness, and five short stories.BOY IN DARKNESSThis 90-page novella resulted in three pages of notes! It is so beautiful and so strange, and not even strange in the same way as the other Gormenghast books. PLOTThe story starts on Titus's fourteenth birthday (part way...
So...guess who finally gave in and had to order this volume to read the rest of the novels when I heard about it. Thank you Kyle for reminding me...
Why, when I already have two editions of this book (not to mention [b:Complete Nonsense|16447335|Complete Nonsense|Mervyn Peake|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356204730s/16447335.jpg|22637077]), do I need a third? Because:i) This has 12 previously unpublished Peake sketches on glossy paper;ii) I h...
Memoirs of Mervyn Peake's son, and it really is all about Sebastian. The trouble is, he doesn't portray himself as a particularly interesting chap. There's not much detail or insight about Mervyn (or any of the rest of his family), and it's poorly written/edited. A hardcore fan of Peake would be una...
Currently rereading as part of summer 2013's Great Gormenghast Read. It's only just started, so it's not too late to join in: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/101455-the-great-gormenghast-readA thing of beauty, like the words it contains: beautifully bound, with sumptuous illustrations. I'm often...
'Titus Groan': 'The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.'I shall read the other two stories in this volume in due course, but...
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