Description: In this second Gormenghast novel, Titus Groan, the seventy-seventh earl, comes of age within the walls of the castle and discovers various family intrigues.
Brief description:
Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) is an author best known for his Gormenghast fantasy fiction trilogy. He also published illustrated verse and short stories for children, plays, short stories, and novels. He was awarded the W. H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. He was born and raised in China until the age of eleven. He went on to study at the Royal Academy School in London, where he developed as an artist, designer, and writer. He worked as an artist on the island of Sark for several years and then returned to London to hold several exhibitions of his artwork.
Review Quotes:
"[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience."
-- "C. S. Lewis "