- Fiction, fantasy, general, Gormenghast family (fictitious character), fiction, Gormenghast castle (imaginary place), fiction
Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of traveling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, stranded in big city, arrested for vagrancy, he longs for home. Nobody has heard of Gormenghast, few believe. Titus wants to prove it is real.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Mervyn Peake
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Penguin, Methuen
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140030914
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