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Gormenghast

By: Mervyn Peake
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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BOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY

Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also 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.

Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony Burgess

©1968 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks

 Classics Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy Historical World Literature

Critic Reviews

Mervyn Peake is a master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination
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. [The Gormenghast Trilogy] is a very, very great work...a classic of our age (Robertson Davies)
[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 (C. S. Lewis)
All stars
Most relevant
Gormenghast/Titus groan/ mervyn Peake/ Saul reichlin create an audio experience a story experience beyond good into something approaching transcendent - the world is better off with this masterpiece within the fold of its bosom

Beyond exceptional

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I read this when I was 13. How good to hear it lazily with wonderful character portrayals. I hadn't realised how complex the story was as a kid; I just found it entertaining. I've listened to it many times.

An old favourite.

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