Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)
Mervyn Peake, David Louis Edelman
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars
3.45
· 30 ratings · 224 pages · Published: 1959
The final book in the Gormenghast trilogy. “Mervyn Peake is the master of the macbre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination.” – The Times
As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with force and vividness of a dream - or a nightmare.
This final installment in the Gormenghast trilogy is a fantastic triumph - a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm.
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