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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. "Peake's Progress" is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. ?The White Chief of the ?Umzimbooboo Kaffirs, ? the early ?Mr. Slaughterboard, ? which foreshadows the Titus books, t...

The Gormenghast trilogy was one of the most unusual cult cycles of the 20th-century. In this surreal, darkly comic fantasy telling the story of Titus, 77th Earl of Groan, Mervyn Peake created a vivid world with strong characters enveloped in intrigue and fearful intent. Here are the three novels completed by Peake, and a fourth, a completion of a fragment left at his early death in 1968. Rupert Degas, an astonishingly versatile and compelling ...

Peake's Gormenghast masterpiece is now complete with this fourth and final volume, outlined by Peake as he was battling Parkinson's disease in the 1960s, and finished by his wife, Gilmore.

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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.«