It is a very, very great work." -Robertson Davies, New York Times-bestselling author "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. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. a moody, melancholy comedy with an underlying wit and profundity that cannot be denied." - SpeculictionĪs the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born.
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