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| | Gormenghast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Another valid classification would be to place Gormenghast in the genre of the fantastic, with marked gothic and surrealist influences. | | | Instead, she spends her time locked away in her bedroom, in the company of a legion of cats and birds, the only things toward which she shows affection. | | | The cycle consists of three novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast
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| | The Official CAN / Spoon Records Website |
| | Gormenghast is, both in spirit and form, Grand Opera. | | | The opera is in 3 acts and centres on the rise and fall of Steerpike, a courageous, clever and charming kitchen-boy who becomes by degrees the murderous tyrant of Gormenghast Castle and its domain. | | | Inspired by Mervyn Peake's masterpiece of gothic fantasy, English novelist Duncan Fallowell wrote the libretto in St. Petersburg, combining romance, comedy and futurism into an adventure of epic strangeness peopled by unforgettable characters. |
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http://www.spoonrecords.com/gormenghast.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone: Books |
| | Gormenghast is an entire world and Titus comes to grips with his prime antagonist, the sinister kitchenboy Steerpike, amongst a brilliant profusion of characters and vivid detail. | | | The new television series, with which this edition ties in, promises great things but the best part of Mervyn Peake is to be found in his ornate, poetic writing; his grasp of the Dickensian oddities of character and the utterly unique atmosphere of the books. | | | The Gormenghast Trilogy has got some very unexpected moments, this is what I like so much about Peakes' writing, there is none of that fairy tale ending rubbish. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099284383
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| | Amazon.com: The Gormenghast Novels: Books: Mervyn Peake |
| | Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle. | | | Gormenghast is not a fantasy, but fantastical literature. | | | And, in the end, Gormenghast, with all its crankiness and folderol, will come to represent for you the places you have loved and perhaps lost, but always return to in your mind's eye. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879516283?v=glance
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| | Gormenghast |
| | The Gormenghast books are filled with evocative images and wonderful gothic hyperbole, and this sort of thing is always very tricky to pluck from the mind and place on the screen without the whole thing being a letdown. | | | Into the penthouse of this teeming anthill is born an heir, and his arrival sets in motion a chain of events so wide in scope that to attempt to summarize them here would be impossible. | | | The story revolves around a decaying, crumbling city state, ruled by a monarchy that is simultaneously all-powerful and purely symbolic. |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/Gormenghast.htm
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| | Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews PS#11: The "Gormenghast" Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake |
| | The book lacks Gormenghast -- by far the most interesting 'character' in the trilogy -- and it lacks all the other characters who inhabited it. | | | "Gormenghast" (***+), the second book of the trilogy, begins five years later, and covers the period of Titus's youth. | | | The 1970 edition of "Titus Alone" contains extensive posthumous corrections to the 1959 edition.) I'd offer a much simpler explanation: "Titus Alone", as the title implies, is just about Titus. |
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http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/dani/PS_011.htm
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| | Gormenghast is Coming (to BBC America) 1900 House on PBS |
| | A gothic fairly tale of decay and corruption, a decadent dance among the ruins of a warped society. | | | Somewhere, the exact place is lost to the mists of time, I read that there was another great epic fantasy even more powerful and ambitious than Tolkein's great work. | | | Think Twin Peaks in Camelot and your just getting along the edge of this gothic fairy tale. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_television/39827
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| | The DVD Journal Quick Reviews: Gormenghast |
| | Their dynasty is threatened by the seductive and diabolical Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who plots and murders his way from his menial position as a kitchen-boy to the heights of power, out to control the House of Groan itself. | | | Between 1946 and 1959, English author Mervyn Peake wrote three dense novels that did for dark, brooding, Gothic fantasy what Tolkien did for elves and wizardry. | | | Sort of a laudanum-dream merging of Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, the classic trilogy of Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone accomplished the mythic, complex, imaginative world-building that defies easy translation to other media. |
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http://www.dvdjournal.com/quickreviews/g/gormenghast.q.shtml
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| | Gormenghast |
| | The books were the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. | | | The story is not for those brought up on modern TV where something new must be presented every few minutes. | | | He truly captures the murky, dank feeling of the book. |
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http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/gormenghast.htm
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| | The Cast of Gormenghast |
| | Now I am wondering 'what do you do after Gormenghast, what could compare with this?'." Malcolm McKay's scripts first persuaded her to take on the role of the giant Lady Groan which, "I just knew was a cracking good part. | | | You have to push yourself and be hungry," aspects of which are perfect in aiding his character as he stabs backs, makes alliances, and keeps moving up. | | | She says, "After Star Wars I didn't think I would ever do something that big again, but here I am in Gormenghast. |
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http://www.eskimo.net/~rkj/weekly/aa060500c.htm
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| | Gormenghast |
| | However, it is Steerpike’s single-minded and ruthless pursuit of power—and his simultaneous pursuit of Titus’ sister Fuchsia—around which this epic tale unfolds and which ultimately disrupts the long-standing Gormenghast legacy. | | | Along with Titus Alone, these books, known to many as The Titus Books or The Gormenghast Trilogy, describe the dark, enclosed world that centers in the monumental Gormenghast Castle. | | | So, have these books had a real influence on Sting, you ask? |
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http://www.police.cybercomm.nl/gormenghast.html
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| | Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews |
| | Steerpike has clawed his way up the ladder to become Secretary, the interpreter of the great book that tells what must be done, when and by whom. | | | Being Prunesquallor's assistant not only gives him access to several interesting poisons, but also introduces him to Gormenghast's elite, and soon Steerpike is again clawing his way up the social hierarchy. | | | This makes him arguably the most powerful person in Gormenghast, and he is ready to stand against Titus himself for ultimate control of the castle and the destiny of its inhabitants. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue226/screen2.html
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| | Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast |
| | Aside from conventional attributes of heroism - youth, good looks (which can be assumed since the assembled grotesques of Gormenghast think him hideous), an enemy - he has an ambiguous attitude to the castle which makes him easy to identify with. | | | The story tells of the adolescence of Titus, 77th Earl of Groan. | | | He and some others - foppish, apparently foolish Dr Prunesquallor and the dowager countess - have begun to realise that the centuries of tradition making Gormenghast what it is are under threat. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6422/rev0686.html
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| | Barbelith: Film: We all live in Gormenghast |
| | For all its thickfisted commotion, though, the film accurately translated Peake's larger concerns and the sociological themes underpinning the work. | | | And poor, affectionstarved Fuschia rejects Steerpike's offer of love when he forgets himself and dares address her by name, rather than as "Lady". | | | The message is clear: the ritual itself is more important than the man, who is merely the public face of these ancient traditions. |
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http://www.barbelith.com/cgi-bin/articles/00000041.shtml
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| | Gormenghast - Welcome |
| | Welcome to an unofficial Gormenghast site, dedicated to Mervyn Peake's 'Titus Groan' trilogy, and to the BBC series, 'Gormenghast' (based on the first two books of the trilogy). | | | Make sure you visit the official Mervyn Peake site, and in particular the newly launched Gormenghast section, which includes extracts from the books, and Mervyn Peake's own illustrations of the characters. | | | If you want to find other people who are also interested in the books or the series, try the Yahoo! |
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http://www.gormenghastcastle.co.uk
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| | The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast |
| | Gormenghast has a heir -- Titus, 77th Earl of Groan -- whose birth is greeted with great and joyous ritual...and with great hope for the future of an ancient dynasty. | | | As Steerpike charms, outwits and terrorizes the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young and timid Earl of Groan, stands in his way. | | | In order to win a DVD copy of Gormenghast, you must send an email to editor@sfsite.com stating the correct answers to the above questions. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/depts/bbc01.htm
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| | "Gormenghast" (2000) (mini) |
| | Thrown into the brew are his wife (played by Celia Imrie), his demented twin sisters (played by Lynsey Baxter and Zoe Wanamaker), his fanciful daughter Fuchsia (Neve McIntosh), and her Nannie (June Brown). | | | Ancient rituals and customs, revolving around the absurd centre of it all: The Groan family, headed by Ian Richardson as Lord Groan, the 76th Earl of Gormenghast. | | | I recently watched the whole mini-series in one sitting, and I must say there has never before been a piece of film (particularly such a long film) that has caught and held my attention in such a manner as this "Gormenghast". |
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| | Gormenghast - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Advantage: this is, at the base of it, a more conventional tale than the critics would like. | | | Gormenghast : Bring him back when he's eight... | | | Based upon the first two of Mervyn Peake& supposedly unfilmable trilogy of novels, ‘Titus Groan’ and ‘Gormenghast’, this BBC adaptation attempted to combine Fantasy (of a different tradition than the better-known Tolkien variation of Fantasy, but still Fantasy nonetheless) with the costume drama of which the BBC is so fond, to produce a programme... |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/tv-programs/gormenghast
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| | Amazon.com: GORMENGHAST (Gormenghast Trilogy): Books: Mervyn Peake |
| | In The Lord of the Rings, there's a sense of destiny to the decisions and actions: Gormenghast is much more personal, with Steerpike's ambition, Sepulchrave's sense of duty, Flay's vigilance, Titus's maturity all helping to propel the action. | | | This second part of the Gormenghast trilogy focuses on Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast's youth, from schooling to his ascention to manhood. | | | This is a review of Gormenghast, that is, the second part of the Gormenghast trilogy (after Titus Groan, and before Titus Alone). |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034527699X?v=glance
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| | Introduction To Gormenghast |
| | We know Steerpike is up to no good, but almost like a medieval How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, half the fun is watching him maneuver, seduce and work his way up rungs of power. | | | As Titus the 77th Earl of Groan is born, Steerpike begins his ascent, escaping the tyranny of the kitchens, and the cruel Swelter (Richard Griffiths). | | | Mervyn Peake's post-war "Gormenghast" trilogy, it tells the story of the rivalries and traditions amid an immense city-state, and the attempted rise to power of Machiavellian Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). |
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http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/weekly/aa060500a.htm
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| | Gormenghast, the official website |
| | See all Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast books, prints and DVDs | | | The Official Gormenghast website brings you: news and events from the world of Mervyn Peake, extracts from the books and the story behind the creation of Gormenghast and its strange denizens. | | | Illustrated talks on the life and work of his father have been enthusiastcally supported by the publisher, and for a list of the literary festivals Sebastian Peake will at speak this year, click here for dates, times, and locations. |
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http://www.mervynpeake.org/gormenghast
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Gormenghast |
| | I first read the Gormenghast books some 20 years ago. | | | Gormenghast is one of those unique works that defines great fantasy while avoiding most of the paradigms of the genre. | | | As for it being Gothic, while it does have the trappings of the gloomy old castle, there are no supernatural occurrences; as for Fantasy, the characters are all human, there is no magic, and few of the trappings associated with the standard post-Tolkienian fantasy. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/08b/gg110.htm
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| | VN Boards - Gormenghast please read |
| | Keep up the AWESOME work on the skins. | | | WOOT is works, when you can I would suggest that you put those new files in the zip file from your webpage (got a tell from a friend who was a little lost as to why his options no longer worked), but thanx for all your hard work on your great skin. | | | Hi there i tried to do what u suggested.. |
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| | Steampunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However the first real example of steampunk, showing an adaption into modern culture was the concluding volume of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, Titus Alone, which was published in 1959. | | | The book featured a young protagonist who was raised with hundreds of others in an isolated Victorian castle, but which was surrounded by a futuristic world. | | | An arguable origin of the steampunk ethos within a media context can be Georges Méliès original silent film Le Voyage dans la Lune in which portrays a trip to the moon, using the technology of the time (for instance using a large cannon to shoot the 'rocket' into space. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
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| | Gormenghast - Wal-Mart |
| | The glorious castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed in thousands of years. |
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http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1221124
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| | Gormenghast - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | The ancient castle of Gormenghast has housed the dynasty of the Groan family for many generations. | | | After so long, the Groans are ripe for destruction, and their kitchen boy Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys-Meyer) just may be the instrument to implement an end. | | | Gormenghast - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
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http://www.smarter.com/movies-4/product/gormenghast-176258
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| | JRMfansite.org // press |
| | It takes time to get your bearings in "Gormenghast." | | | It's king Author's court seen through Lewis Carrol's looking glass. | | | In these antic, frantic first minutes you may be tempted to change the channel. |
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http://www.jrmfansite.org/press/reviews/index.php?gormenghast1
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| | BBC - Gormenghast - Downloads |
| | The BBC has taken all reasonable care to ensure that the Gormenghast Screensaver contains no errors, viruses or defects, however, the BBC does not warrant that this is the case. | | | You are advised to ensure that you take precautions to protect your computer from virus infection. | | | You may need to download the Winzip file extractor to access the screensaver. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/gormenghast/std/download/screensaver.shtml
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| | Gormenghast Fuchsia |
| | Scottish actress Neve McIntosh believes that Fuchsia is Gormenghast's damsel in distress. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/gormenghast/characters/fuchsia.html
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| | Mormon SF Bibliography: Nonfiction |
| | “The Shifting Perspectives of Gormenghast.” Leading Edge, no. 17 (summer 1988): 48–52. |
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