Titus, heir to the earldom of Groan, is born and spends the first years of his life in a pinnacled castle amidst rituals and grotesque persons An undisputed classic of epic fantasy, MervynPeake’s Gormenghast novels represent one of the most brilliantly sustainedflights of Gothic imagination. As the novel opens, Titus, heir to LordSepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of ramblingstone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events arepredetermined by a complex ritual whose origins are lost in history and thecastle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike andmacabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing andfantastic works in modern English fiction.
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