Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/1998
ISBN: 9780749394929
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £9.99
As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/1998
ISBN: 9780749394929
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £9.99
Mr Peake's first novel holds one with its glittering eye - It has a genuine plot in the strictest sense, and it persuades you to read on simply in order to know what will happen - its gallery of characters is wonderful
A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination
The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age