One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century
Mervyn Peake was born in 1911. He is perhaps most famous for the 'Gormenghast' trilogy which were published between 1946 and 1959 - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone. He has also written a book for children, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor and several volumes of poetry. He was also a gifted book illustrator. He died in 1968.
A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and
darker chasms of the imagination
*The Times*
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 [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great
work...a classic of our age
[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
The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works to come
out of the age that produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave,
Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and Nineteen
Eighty-Four
*Spectator*
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