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| | Scriptorium - Mervyn Peake |
 | | Peake is revealed in the book as a hardworking, humorous, sensitive man totally in love with his wife yet somehow remaining solitary and troubled. | | | Peake is the man who wrote in one verse: "I can/be quite obscure and practic-/ally marzipan"; and in another: "to live at all is miracle enough." | | | This book is essential for an understanding of Peake and the genesis of his work and is a good starting point for anyone wishing to enter into Peake's work. |
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http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/peake.html
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| | Mervyn Peake - definition of Mervyn Peake in Encyclopedia |
| | Peake also wrote a number of nonsense poems, a children's story "Letters from a Lost Uncle", a radio play and "Mr Pye", a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero. | | | In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain so that Mervyn could convalesce after an illness, and the short story Boy in Darkness was published. | | | His work is sometimes compared to his contemporary J.R.R. Tolkien, but his fiction is firmly located in the Fantasist Realist genre, rather than in the mythical fantasy realms of Tolkien. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Mervyn_Peake
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| | Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake augments those feelings by a device that ought not to work, that ought instead to be ridiculous: the names of his characters. | | | In the event, Peake completed only three before his premature death from a disease that affected his mind as well as his body (there are minuscule fragments of what would have been the fourth book). | | | Indeed, Peake makes it fairly clear that his world is to be taken mercilessly on its own terms: it stands or falls by what we make of it, and one who would seek to make something of it by its relation with us will forever be missing the boat. |
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http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/MervynPeake.php
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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. | | | Peake's terrible personal circumstances during the writing of this book, while they may be heart wrenching, don't make this terrible book anything but the mess that it is. The third book is simply incoherent. | | | The words that Peake strings together to deliver his masterpiece drip with unrivaled poetic beauty, and a vividness that makes you tremble and try to reach out and caress just one block of stone that makes up the sprawling haven of static tradition that is Gormenghast. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879516283?v=glance
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Gormenghast Trilogy: Books |
| | 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. | | | Although Tolkien is plain and expansive where Peake is elaborate, poetic and inward-looking, both authors nonetheless use a detailed imaginative escapism in order to talk about the concerns of their day--specifically the passing of the old certainties of traditional England and the coming of something new. | | | In fact, the descriptions often fail to describe very much: whilst Peake pauses to fondle with his stream of eloquence objects within scenes, he often fails to describe the whole scene very effectively. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099288893
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake was a thorough-going romantic whose work generally ignored contemporary poetical preoccupations. | | | It took a visit to the newly liberated concentration camp at Belsen to nudge him into depicting in both word and image the reality that he witnessed, and the emotional cost of the experience was great. | | | Specialists still consider the pictures he provided for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as one of the most powerful interpretations of the poem, and his Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as the most memorable illustrated edition. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3515
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| | Sebastian Peake |
| | Later this year the French publisher Editions Phebus will be bringing out a pocket book version of each volume of the Gormenghast trilogy in their Libretto series. | | | I would be happy to answer questions relating to the life and work of my father; whether from students, readers or others interested in the author of the Gormenghast trilogy. | | | Apart from my own account of life as the son of the multi-talented artist, I have had two collections of poetry published: A Knight with The Sparkle Virgin, Summit Publishing, 2000, and As Time Goes By, Gipfel Publishing, 1997. |
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http://sebastianpeake.blogspot.com
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| | SF REVIEWS.NET: Titus Alone / Mervyn Peake |
| | Though it doesn't quite equal the Himalayan heights of literary achievement that the trilogy's first two books attain, it's still a startling and unusual creation by an author who had imagination to burn and burn again. | | | So, while Titus Alone does not end this great trilogy on as consistently high a note as its beginning and middle, it is still a feat of storytelling unmatched in wit or imagination by the majority of today's novels. | | | Fragments of it can be read in the Overlook Press omnibus trade paperback edition of the trilogy, currently available. |
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http://www.sfreviews.net/titusalone.html
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| | Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | They are very difficult to categorise as they cover fantasy, horror and even comedy, but to give Peake's wonderful imagination it's due I would settle on fantastical horror with a hint of fairy tale. | | | The second of a trilogy written by Mervyn Peake, the... | | | When I first saw the TV series I knew the book must be something special.It is an amazingly descriptive book;quite dark in places that keeps the reader guessing right until the end.The books surreal touches help detract it from the overall gloom that readers may find overwhelming. |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/gormenghast-mervyn-peake
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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 have ever wondered what might have happened after the end of the published books, I now have a small fragment of what was intended to be the beginning of the next book in the series. |
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http://www.gormenghastcastle.co.uk
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| | Gormenghast: a fantasy opera |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | DUET FUCHSIA and STEERPIKE: The Birds Are Leaving For The South |
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http://www.spoonrecords.com/gormen.html
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| | The Official CAN / Spoon Records Website |
| | Peake is the most accomplished Fantastic Realist in modern English literatue, having more stylistically in common with Dickens than with any of his British contemporaries. | | | One only has to read the work of an imitator such as John Barth to be reminded of how exceptional Peake's performance is. Since Peake, the novels of Garc’a Marquez and the stories of Borges have had much in common with him. | | | Peake finishes 'Titus Groan' and 'Gormenghast' and completes illustrations for 'Ride a Cock Horse', 'The Hunting of the Sark', 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Grimm's Household Tales'. |
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http://www.spoonrecords.com/peake.html
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| | Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Titus Groan is the first book in Mervyn Peakes classic Gormenghast trilogy. | | | It is the first part in a magnificent trilogy, an incredible Gothic fantasy that let’s your imagination run away completely. | | | Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/titus-groan-mervyn-peake
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| | Kemp Booksellers - Mervyn Peake Page |
| | We are the leading specialists in the works of Mervyn Peake and always carry a large and varied stock of first editions of his published works in book and periodical form. | | | We normally have books written, illustrated and /or with contributions by Peake. | | | The periodical devoted to the life and work of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), Peake Studies provides a unique independent forum for criticism and debate for all those interested in Mervyn Peake's life and work as an artist, novelist, poet, and illustrator. |
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kemp.books/peake.htm
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| | The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast |
| | Peake's wife Maeve claimed: "I don't think he ever intended Titus to return to Gormenghast, just as he could never see himself returning to China. | | | The Peake family returned to England when Mervyn was twelve. | | | Mervyn Peake travelled to Sark in 1933 after his former art teacher Eric Drake invited him to join his fledgling artists' colony. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/depts/bbc04.htm
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| | Bow. James Bow: Bookstore: Peake, Mervyn - The Gormenghast Series |
| | The site features a biography and information on Mervyn Peake as an artist, poet, illustrator and author of the Gormenghast Trilogy of books. | | | The first two books is spent showing the Byzantine, tradition-bound kingdom of Gormenghast through the eyes of its inhabitants, in particular young Titus Groan, the 77th Earl. | | | In the third book, Titus walks away from Gormenghast and ends up in a futuristic, fascistic world. |
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http://www.bowjamesbow.ca/science_fiction_and_fantasy/peake_mervyn_the_gorm.shtml
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| | Amazon.ca: The Art of Gormenghast: The Making of a Television Fantasy: Books |
| | This section alone is worth the cost of the book, as it gives unique insight into the man who created the world of Gormenghast. | | | This book, compiled by the producer of the miniseries, will provide another fix of this highly addictive delight. | | | I think this book is a work of art in itself. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002571560
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| | [minstrels] Conceit -- Mervyn Peake |
| | Mukund suggested http://www.mervynpeake.org for more about the poet, and I concur - it seems to be an excellent site, and does ample justice to Peake's multifarious talents, as poet, novelist, artist, illustrator, writer of children's books and nonsense verse. | | | English novelist, poet, painter, playwright, and illustrator, best known for the bizarre Titus Groan trilogy of novels and for his illustrations of his novels and of children's stories. | | | Peake's drawings and paintings, particularly his illustrations for the novels and for children's books, are only a little less known, and his poem The Glassblowers (1950) won a literary prize, together with Gormenghast. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/664.html
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| | Library--Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake in Print Comprehensive bibliography and discussion of Peake's works | | | Links to the some of the most informative Peake sites. | | | Peake Studies The periodical devoted to the life and work of Mervyn Peake |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~ellendebrock/peake/links.htm
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| | Mervyn Peake - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | Mervyn Peake is perhaps best known for his Titus books - Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) - which are considered to be one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. | | | For his novel Gormenghast and his poem The Glassblowers Mervyn Peake was awarded the W. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950, and was made a Fellow in 1951. | | | During this time he also wrote some of his finest poetry. |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000024711,00.html
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| | Fantastic Metropolis » An Excellence of Peake |
| | Others, who perhaps knew him a little better, understood how cleverly Peake was formalising his own experience and observations. | | | Peake’s own suspicion of academics and clerics, evident from his books, made him a little wary of Lewis’s friendly overtures and he was rather more pleased by the attention he received from Elizabeth Bowen, Angus Wilson and others, whom he did read. | | | Wilson thought he was ahead of his time. |
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http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?ey,peake,1
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| | Mervyn Peake Awards 2006 |
| | Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an illustrator, writer and poet who overcame Parkinson's to produce works that explored the world of fantasy. | | | You are here: Home > News and Events > Special Events > Mervyn Peake Awards 2006 | | | The competition is now closed, but watch this space for winning enteries. |
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http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=95585
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| | Mervyn Peake Awards |
| | Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an illustrator, writer and poet, whose work explored the world of fantasy. | | | He had Parkinson's, and his family created this award in his memory. | | | Last year's overall winner was Peter Cameron who is pictured here with his work The Piano Man |
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http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=89635
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| | Mervyn Peake Pathfinder |
| | An enlightening article concerning Peake's vivid imagination and its manifestation in the creation of Gormenghast. | | | This writer analyzes the Titus Groan novels and their relationship to literature authored by Borges and Kafka as well as Peake's unfashionable (to English society at the time) nod to surrealism. | | | While Peake channels his dismay with humanity through his novels, Gunnell attempts to dispel the pessimism and bring to light Peake's sense of (grim) optimism. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~hymas/pathfinder/journal.html
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| | Mervyn Peake |
| | Since the tv-adaptation of the first two books, shown by the BBC in january 2000, the interest in his work has risen considerably. | | | Mervyn Peake, writer, poet, painter and draughtsman, has by now become famous for his Titus-books, also known as the Gormenghast-trilogy. | | | This Dutch version has been published by Uitgeverij Het Spectrum over the years 1999-2001. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~fvdwaa/peake/peakee.htm
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| | Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews PS#11: The "Gormenghast" Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake |
| | 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. | | | Mervyn Peake's output was varied; he was a poet, a novelist, a playwright, and an illustrator. | | | We take these people at their self-estimation and enter a world where Gormenghast is as much of the universe as matters. |
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http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/dani/PS_011.htm
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| | Underman's 2001: Three in One |
| | Leonard F. Wheat's newly-published book, "Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory", is based on the assertive proposition that Stanley Kubrick, far from giving us a film with an "unfathomable" plot, knew the exact and intended meaning that lay behind each of its myriad symbols and scenes. | | | Mervyn Peake is little-known and little-understood outside devotees of his "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast" trilogy. | | | considers Mervyn Peake's trilogy to be "the greatest work of fiction ever written." |
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http://www.underview.com/2001/threeinone/threeinone.html
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| | Mervyn Peake; My Eyes Mint Gold- The Overlook Press |
| | Mervyn Peake; My Eyes Mint Gold- The Overlook Press | | | Creator of the extraordinary Gormenghast novels—recently broadcast on PBS in a BBC-produced mini-series—Mervyn Peake was also a painter, poet, illustrator, and dramatist—and a great original in his life and work. | | | Famously witty, eccentric, widely popular, and attractive to women, Peake was also sturdily independent of the literary and artistic movements of his day and achieved cult status even before his early death in 1968. |
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http://www.overlookpress.com/biography/peake.shtml
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| | Mervyn Peake Pathfinder |
| | This entry wonderfully evokes the rich atmosphere of Gormenghast castle in the first 2 Titus Groan novels and vividly, with a hint of condescension, describes Peake's unconventional mode of fashion and mannerisms deemed alien to his contemporary society's norms. | | | The milestone events which shaped Mervyn Peake's life and fuelled his artistic output are vividly brought to life with insightful quotations from Peake's writings and conversations with his wife Maeve. | | | A concise, well written entry, this resource is noteworthy for its discussion regarding how Peake's prose and drawing talents fed off of each other as well as the reasons Peake's literary fame, while notable, still wanes in comparison to J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~hymas/pathfinder/dictionaries.html
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| | Scriptorium - Mervyn Peake Bookstore |
| | -- This link will call up Alibris, and you may manually search for Peake books. | | | -- This link will search Bibliofind for all books by or about Peake. | | | -- This link will search Amazon.com for all books and materials by or about Peake. |
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http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/peake_bookstore.html
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| | WarMuseum.ca - Art and War - British artist - Mervyn Peake |
| | He also illustrated a number of books and started writing the first book of the Gormenghast trilogy, Titus Groan. | | | WAAC with subject ideas but was commissioned to paint a picture of a glass factory. | | | WarMuseum.ca - Art and War - British artist - Mervyn Peake |
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http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/artwar/artists/mervyn-peake_e.html
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| | Ron's Favourite Books and Authors |
| | I read a lot, and here are some of my favourite authors: Philip K. | | | Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, William Gibson, Stanislaw Lem, Mervyn Peake, Thomas Pynchon, Abd al-Azrad, Douglas Hofstadter, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, Kilgore Trout, Ursula K. LeGuin, and a brilliant new writer, Greg Egan. |
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http://ron.ludism.org/fave-books.html
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| | This is a fansite/fanlisting for Mervyn Peake´s Gormenghast trilogy and Andy Wilson´s Gormenghast Miniseries. |
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http://web.telia.com/~u25013040/gormenghast
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| | The Official Website of Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast |
| | Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968), artist, illustrator, poet and | | | To find books written and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, biographies of his life and work, the latest editions of Gormenghast and the BBC Television production of Gormenghast on DVD, visit the Mervyn Peake shop* | | | Buy Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast books and DVDs |
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http://www.mervynpeake.org
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| | Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake's Selected Poems were posthumously published in 1972. | | | Relatively neglected during his lifetime, the English artist, poet, playwright, and novelist Mervyn Laurence Peake, b. | | | Yet occasionally, for one reason or another, a servant or a member of the household would make an unexpected appearance and startle him with some question appertaining to ritual, and then the dust would settle once more in the hall and on the soul of Mr. |
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http://www.levity.com/corduroy/peake.htm
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| | Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast |
| | Peake has assembled all these elements to make up one of the greatest cult classics of the twentieth century. | | | Peake makes more of the way in which it affects every part of every inhabitant rather than exhibiting the castle directly. | | | The tradition of the castle has something at least to do with the conventions of society; the freedom that Titus yearns for is represented by his foster sister, the wild forest-dwelling Thing; and her death is clearly important though its meaning is less so. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6422/rev0686.html
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| | Mervyn Peake |
| | Mervyn Peake's masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, is a gothic fantasy whose strange characters' lives are dominated by the labyrinthine castle of Gormenghast and its ancient rituals. | | | Peake was also a brilliant artist which perhaps accounts for the unique visual intensity of his creation. | | | He was awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. |
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/mervyn-peake
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| | Mervyn Peake (1911-68) |
| | Of late, Peake's best-known work – the Gormenghast trilogy – has been co-opted into the “fantasy” genre and the author now has a large number of unhealthy websites devoted to him. | | | Even if you forgot the novels, he’d still be remembered for his pictures today. | | | Then again, knowing how to deal with unsuitable friends is something any true public school man learns to cope with at an early age. |
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http://www.crappublicschools.org/alumni/p/peake.html
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| | Wormwood # 3 Reviewed on the Official website of Laura Hird |
| | Peter Winnington provides a learned,exhaustive article about Mervyn Peake’s life and work, discussing how the theme of solitude permeates both his ‘Titus’ trilogy and the rest of his literary and artistic production. | | | This intriguing view brings forth a new insight in the understanding of Peake’s body of work. | | | ‘Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake’ |
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http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/wormwood3.html
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| | SF REVIEWS.NET: Gormenghast / Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake revels in the grotesqueries of his ever-growing cast, much in the way Charles Dickens delighted in the sheer ugliness and pathetic qualities of many of his more villianous and twisted creations. | | | With its epic sweep, unflagging pace, and broad range that takes the reader from hilarity to horror and back again, Gormenghast is Mervyn Peake's greatest novel and one of the finest works of fantasy in the English language. | | | The second volume of Mervyn Peake's prodigious Gormenghast Trilogy gives readers a breather from the melancholy of Titus Groan, favoring instead a broader emotional narrative approach to the strange goings-on in the crumbling city-sized castle. |
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http://www.sfreviews.net/gormenghast.html
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| | [minstrels] To Maeve -- Mervyn Peake |
| | I discovered the poetry of Mervyn Peake soon after devouring "The Gormenghast Trilogy". | | | That Peake wrote this poem for his wife just tugs at my heart. | | | That was about 25 years ago; his poetry continues to hold a place in my heart. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1488.html
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| | Supernatural Fiction Database, Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake's strength in both his writing and drawing is in the creation of atmosphere through often grotesque detail. | | | Some of his verse is of the nonsense school. | | | Please click on the index to access authors by surname: |
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http://freepages.pavilion.net/users/tartarus/p25.htm
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| | Gormenghast |
| | The important point to remember is that this heir, Titus Groan, is more of a catalyst than a central character in the first two novels. | | | As with all such adaptations, a great deal of plot and many minor (and indeed major) characters have been cut, but the real task facing the adapters was to attempt to translate Peake’s language to the screen, and in this task they have succeeded surprisingly well. | | | The real protagonist here is a cunning young kitchen boy named Steerpike (it should by now be obvious that Peake shared with Dickens a love of outlandish character names). |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/Gormenghast.htm
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| | Mervyn Peake - David Higham Associates |
| | Among his other writings where several volumes of poetry, zany nonsense verse and stories such as RHYMES WITHOUT REASON and a number of plays. | | | Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in China where his father was a medical missionary. | | | His education, begun at Tientsin Grammar School, continued in England at Eltham College in South East London. |
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http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/html/Clients/Mervyn_Peake
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| | Letters From A Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake |
| | With his only companion, the tortoiselike mutant Jackson, the Uncle has gone in search of his ambition and his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion. | | | Illustrated on every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie original drawings, Letters from a Lost Uncle is the product of a unique imagination and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange genius of Mervyn Peake. | | | Re-publication of this long out of print classic |
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http://www.methuen.co.uk/lettersfromalostuncle.html
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Gormenghast |
| | The attention to detail in terms of the characters' likeness to Peake's own sketches of them is also to be lauded. | | | 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. | | | I first read the Gormenghast books some 20 years ago. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/08b/gg110.htm
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| | audiography: Off-Topic: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy |
| | The Mich Sampson song is music she set to author Mervyn Peake's own words. | | | Not sure what "filk" is but snagged both cuz I'm curious (and Labyrinth is my favorite movie, so any song with the word in the title is automatically good) :) |
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http://community.livejournal.com/audiography/645924.html
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| | The Falls |
| | Greenaway is also, and perhaps essentially, the heir to a very English Utopian tradition so strongly represented by Tolkien and Mervyn Peake. | | | Like his illustrious predecessors, Greenaway has ambitions to create a total and self-sufficient world, complete in every detail, with its language and nomenclature, its maps and place names, and with the Violent Unknown Event to serve as its Genesis Myth... |
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http://vue.org.uk/falls.htm
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| | Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake |
| | Peake is often compared to Tolkien, but he really exists in his own special universe. | | | Dead words defy me. I can make no sound, dear ladies, that is apt." | | | Peake is also in the Linkoping SF and F Archive. |
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http://www.paraethos.com/library/titus.htm
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| | Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake: book review |
| | Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake: book review | | | If you find that Boy in Darkness is to your taste, and you are a mature reader, you might like to try Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy: | | | If it is the horror which appeals to you, you might like to look at Rachel Anderson's book: |
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http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=6
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