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The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone) Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp
Publisher: Overlook Press

PEAKE, M.: Gormenghast Trilogy and Titus Awakes (The). The Hall of the Bright Carvings – Near and Far (p1 – p100) 8th June. There are very few works of fiction which so defy classification that they stand alone, a genre all to themselves. The Gormenghast trilogy was one of the most unusual cult cycles of the 20th-century. The Twins Again – Mr Rottcodd Again (p277 -p361) 29th June Titus Alone – August 2011. On both sides of the Atlantic, there have been new illustrated editions of the Gormenghast novels and a new epilogue, Titus Awakes, has surfaced, written by Peake's widow, Maeve Gilmore. The Grotto – The Bloody Cheekbone (p194 – p277) 22nd June. Titus is heir to Titus Alone, the third in the trilogy, shatters the apparently self-contained world of the preceding volumes and evicts us from our crenellated perch. Over the course of these three novels--Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone --Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.". Dust and Ivy – Preparations for Arson (p101 – p194) 15th June. Anthony Burgess, Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp. The three novels--Titus Groan (1949), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959)--follow the main character, Titus Groan, from birth to manhood and chronicle his role as the reluctant ruler of Gormenghast. In Britain, the celebrations We begin with the birth of Titus, the seventy-seventh Earl of Groan. The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone). The series consists of three novels, "Titus Groan" (1946), "Gormenghast" (1950), and "Titus Alone" (1959). One – Fifty-Eight (p759 -p854) 10th August. I've always found it more strange than readable, where the first two books were the reverse. A series by Mervyn Peake made of the novels Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone and the lesser-known novella "Boy In Darkness", which take place sometime before the second book.