Mervyn Peake è stato uno scrittore, artista, poeta e illustratore modernista inglese. È meglio conosciuto per una serie di romanzi che originariamente concepì come un lungo ciclo che segue un protagonista dalla culla alla tomba, sebbene il ciclo incompiuto sia ora comunemente, sebbene erroneamente, definito una trilogia. La sua finzione surreale fu influenzata da un amore precoce per Charles Dickens e Robert Louis Stevenson. Oltre ai romanzi, scrisse anche poesie, racconti per adulti e bambini e opere teatrali e radiofoniche.
Full colour, re-originated edition of a forgotten classic by the author of Gormenghast. I am now many miles further to the North-East and am writing from a cave in a gaunt hillside. When Jackson and I sat down to rest we could see our footprints stretching back to the edge of the world...
Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. This edition of Peake's poetry is published to mark his anniversary. It features more than 230 poems, where Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist, passionately engaged with current events.
Extracts from the Poems of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Illus. by Mervyn Peake ; and a Foreword by Maeve Gilmore
Originally published in 1946, this little treatise on the simple art of pencil drawing is the perfect antidote to the myriad 'how-to' books that fill the bookshelves.
Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder. Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan—it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
A story of the macabre and the chasms of the imagination. A gormenghast story. Older readers.
Adapted from Mervyn Peake's gothic trilogy. In one evening of physical theatre you enter a world of ritual and drama.
Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this collection contains pieces recently discovered by the Peake family From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake's nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by young and old alike. This collection of writings and drawings has been selected by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, and it introduces a bewitching gallery of characters and creatures rivalling the best of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear--creatures such as the Dwarf of Battersea and Footfruit. Also included are never-before-seen illustrations to the poems not in previous editions. This treasure trove will delight new and old fans alike with its deceptively goofy, actually quite complex verse--it's quirky and comical, occasionally alarming, but always magical.
Stranger than fiction, larger than life, full of shades and echoes, Titus Groan is not merely one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of the imagination in modern English fiction, it is also a sustained piece of deadly irony. The characters are weird; the setting fantastic; everything about Mervyn Peake's masterpiece seems eccentric but for the stringent sense of reality which always seeps through the farcical, frightening antics in the mad castle of Gormenghast.
