Titus Groan
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Mervyn Peake. (2010). Titus Groan. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Mervyn Peake. 2010. Titus Groan. Blackstone Publishing.

Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan. Blackstone Publishing, 2010.

Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2010.

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     Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911–1968) is an author best known for his Gormenghast fantasy fiction trilogy. He also published illustrated verse and short stories for children, plays, short stories, and novels. He was awarded the W. H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. He was born and raised in China until the age of eleven. He went on to study at the Royal Academy School in London, where he developed as an artist, designer, and writer. He worked as an artist on the island of Sark for several years and then returned to London to hold several exhibitions of his artwork.

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A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. Peake has created a world where all is like a dream—lush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle.

At the center of everything is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual whose origins are lost in history, and the castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. When Titus is crowned, he is called "Child-Inheritor of the rivers, of the Tower of Flints and the dark recesses beneath cold stairways...Child-Inheritor of the spring breezes that blow in from the jarl forests and of the autumn misery in petal, scale, and wing."

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   • content: "Robert Whitfield is calm and fastidious-voiced in third person narration, giving us time to revel in the book's surreal description and ghastly ambience....In the book's dialogue, however, he takes on the Gormenghast menagerie with brio and versatility, giving each character a distinctive, appropriate voice...Overall his narration is a masterly rendition of a lurid and haunting work."
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     November 4, 1991
     In this illustrated Gothic trilogy, a young heir matures within the confines of bleak Gormenghast castle. Volume three includes 12 critical essays and Peake's unfinished Titus Awakes .

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   • content: Originally written in 1968, this classic of fantasy establishes and describes the world of Titus Groan, the 77th heir of his dynasty. Its inhabitants live, the reasons for which are mired in ritual, forgotten in the dust of time in Gormenghast Castle and the surrounding land. The themes and plots unfold slowly, bringing this strange world into focus. With amazing flexibility, Edmund Dehn twists his tongue around created words and unusual characters, each with their own speech mannerisms. As the listener struggles to understand the world of Gormenghast, Dehn breathes life into each curious inhabitant. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
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   • content: Lord Sepulchrave finally has an heir in this first book in the Gormenghast trilogy. Life in this castle is bound by ritual and hereditary position. Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his station as a kitchen boy, becomes a central character in this complex novel. Edmund Dehn is a patient storyteller. This is a book of long expository passages throughout which Dehn remains engaged. His skill as a narrator is also reflected in his presentation of a collection of odd characters, particularly Clara and Clarice, identical twins who speak (generally to each another) in similar flat tones that are bound up in the pair's narrow existence and limited mental capabilities. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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   • content: Enter the world of Gormenghast--a vast, meandering city reminiscent of London or Byzantium. New to U.S. audiences, Peake's trilogy, aired on BBC Television in 2000, created a cult following in the UK. Rupert Degas acts out all the parts of this gothic novel with extreme characterizations, based on the BBC show, contrasted with lengthy spates of narrative. On the day Titus, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, is born, a young upstart named Steerpike escapes his hereditary kitchen job to change his life and fortunes. Steerpike encounters many characters, who get bold treatment from narrator Degas. The thick accents and dialogue take some getting used to, especially in the early scenes. Nonetheless, Gormenghast fans will love Degas's performance. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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