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Gormenghast (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr m ə n ɡ ɑː s t /) is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure.
Gormenghast / ˈ ɡ ɔː m ən ˌ ɡ ɑː s t / is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast Castle, from age 7 to 17.
Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It was produced and broadcast by the BBC . First broadcast in June 2000, the series was designed for an early evening time-slot in much the same vein as the earlier adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia .
Gormenghast is an ancient city-state which primarily consists of a rambling and crumbling castle. The narrative, based on the first two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begins with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude.
Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess, Quentin Crisp (Introduction) A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time.
3 primary works • 6 total works. Mervyn Peake had intended to tell the story of Titus Groan over his lifetime, from his birth to his death. Ill health and an early death forced the conclusion of these books before he had even completed the third book.
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.
Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death.
Peake wrote with the eye of a painter. Gormenghast was published in 1950 and won the 1950 Royal Society of Literature award (and the 1951 Heinemann Award for Literature along with Peake's ...
Gormenghast. A former kitchen boy schemes to control the crumbling estate of a once-proud family.
