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Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. This work is a sequel to "Titus Groan".

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Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was the author of the much-loved "Gormenghast" novels. This edition of Peake's poetry is published to mark his anniversary. It features more than 230 poems, where Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist, passionately engaged with current events.

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In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city.

Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in Kuling, Central Southern China, where his father was a medical missionary. His education began in China and then continued at Eltham College in South East London, followed by the Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Subsequently he became an artist, married the painter Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and had three children. During the Second World War he established a reputation as a gifted book illustrat...

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»Alles um ihn herum war ein Wunder. Die kleinen Bergblumen und die Geräusche des Wassers und der Vögel und der menschlichen Stimmen. Die freundliche Sonne über ihm erzeugte weniger Wärme als ein Gefühl der Erneuerung im Spiel des Lebens.«

Schloss Gormenghast beherbergt das alte Geschlecht der Grafen von Groan. Hinter den Mauern geht die Zeit ihren eigenen Gang. Begleitet von rätselhaften Zeremonien pflegen die Schlossbewohner ihre Gewohnheiten. Im dritten Band verlässt Titus das Schloss, um die Welt kennen zu lernen. Mervyn Peakes zeitloses Meisterwerk ist das Vorbild für viele moderne Fantasy-Autoren.