![]() Visit the official Gormenghast website Mr. Extracts from Gormenghastīooks were out of print for a short time in the 1950sīut became enormously popular after Peakes death inġ968 and remain in print now in many languages.Īs part of its Millennium Celebrations, the BBC producedĪ televison adaption of The Gormenghast Trilogy. Titus Groan was published in 1946 and was followed by Gormenghast in 1950 and Titus Alone in 1959. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder - a world suggested in a tour-de-force that ranks as one of this century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. ![]()
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