![]() It has a genuine plot in the strictest sense, and it persuades you to read on simply in order to know what will happen. ![]() Peake's first novel hold one with its glittering eye. ![]() His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing." - San Francisco Chronicle "Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but fans of Mervyn Peake's Titus trilogy maintain that this extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time." - The Washington Post Book World "Mr. Lewis "The true fantasy classic of our time." - The Washington Post "Peake's style is marvelous. a classic of our age." -Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy " 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. ![]() a work of extraordinary imagination." - The New Yorker "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. Praise for Mervyn Peake: "Gormenghast is grotesque, gory, ghastly, mystical, lyrical, monstrous, mind-bending, and inarticulably beautiful." - The Scattering Blog "A gorgeous, volcanic eruption. ![]()
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