Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake

Titus Alone

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
1998 | New ed
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-7493-9487-5 (ISBN)
13,90 inkl. MwSt
Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a bustling city. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.
In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.

Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in Kuling, Central Southern China, where his father was a medical missionary. His education began in China and then continued at Eltham College in South East London, followed by the Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Subsequently he became an artist, married the painter Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and had three children. During the Second World War he established a reputation as a gifted book illustrator for Ride a Cock Horse (1940), The Hunting of the Snark (1941), and The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (1943). Titus Groan was published in 1946, followed in 1950 by Gormenghast. Among his other works are Shapes and Sounds (1941), Rhymes Without Reason (1944), Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948) and Mr Pye (1953). He also wrote a number of plays including The Wit to Woo (1957), which was met by critical failure. Titus Alone was published in 1959. Mervyn Peake died in 1968.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.2.1998
Reihe/Serie Gormenghast trilogy ; bk. 3
Zusatzinfo illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 131 x 195 mm
Gewicht 192 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Literatur Fantasy / Science Fiction Fantasy
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-7493-9487-0 / 0749394870
ISBN-13 978-0-7493-9487-5 / 9780749394875
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