Titus Awakes (Gormenghast, 4)

Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake

ISBN 10: 1536625035 ISBN 13: 9781536625035

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2016

Synopsis

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats—snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life—Titus’ bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past.

Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the writer and painter Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.

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About the Author

SIMON VANCE is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An AudieŽ Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by Booklist magazine.

Review

"Titus Awakes is a treasure salvaged from the ruins'" New Statesman "Peake does not, as some have said, defy classification; rather, he is beyond classification in any single genre, and therein perhaps lies his genius. In his centenary year it is to be hoped that the latest surge of interest in his enormous range of work will finally help to place him in his rightful position as one of Britain's most brilliant, original and creative figures'" Times Literary Supplement "A century after his birth, the gothic surrealism of Peake's fantasy world still attracts new fans. With more than 100 of his drawings, this splendid anniversary edition will entice even more into the towers, cellars and corridors of his blackly comic castle" I

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1536625035
• ISBN 13: 9781536625035
• Binding: MP3 CD