Titus Alone

by Mervyn Peake

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Series (with order)

Gormenghast Trilogy (3)

Canonical Title

Titus Alone

Original publication date

1970

Important places

Gormenghast

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Awards and honors

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 84)

Epigraph

Dedication

For Maeve

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To north, south, east or west, turning at will, it was not long before his landmarks fled him.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0413444309, Hardcover)

With Overlook's new single-volume republication of Mervyn Peake's timeless Gormenghast novels in individual volumes, readers everywhere have embraced Titus Groan all over again. Peake's trilogy is an undisputed classic of epic fantasy, and finally Titus Alone, the final volume in the series, is available again.

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.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:04:21 -0400)

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