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Peake's Progress

Selected short stories and poems

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Peake's Progress

By: Mervyn Peake, Maeve Gilmore
Narrated by: Sebastian Peake, Fabian Peake
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Summary

Mervyn Peake was a writer, artist, poet and playwright, best known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy. This selection of works from Peake’s Progress includes some of his most characteristic and memorable poems and short stories, from memories of the horrors of the concentration camps at Belsen to the fantastic wit of his nonsense poetry. The selection includes 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb', 'The Weird Journey', 'Mr Slaughterboard' and 'Danse Macabre'. It is read by Mervyn Peake's sons, Sebastian and Fabian Peake.

©2011 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2011 The British Library Board
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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