Gormenghast

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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.

The second volume in Mervyn Peake's celebrated Gormenghast trilogy, this dark fantasy masterpiece chronicles the continuing saga of the vast, crumbling castle of Gormenghast and its eccentric, ritual-bound inhabitants. At its centre is the young Earl Titus Groan, who chafes against the suffocating weight of ancient tradition, while the cunning kitchen boy Steerpike relentlessly schemes his way toward power through manipulation and cold-blooded ambition. Written with extraordinary Gothic intensity and a poet's command of language, Peake constructs a world so vivid and self-contained it stands as one of the great imaginative achievements in twentieth-century British literature. Towering, labyrinthine, and darkly comic, Gormenghast rewards readers with unforgettable characters and a prose style unlike any other.