Titus Alone
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  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448104192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Titus Alone

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The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.

THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY

'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S Lewis

In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.

But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.

'[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.' Anthony Burgess
  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448104192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
Categories:

About the author

Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in Kuling, Central Southern China, where his father was a medical missionary. His education began in China and then continued at Eltham College in South East London, followed by the Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Subsequently he became an artist, married the painter Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and had three children. During the Second World War he established a reputation as a gifted book illustrator for Ride a Cock Horse (1940), The Hunting of the Snark (1941), and The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (1943). Titus Groan was published in 1946, followed in 1950 by Gormenghast. Among his other works are Shapes and Sounds (1941), Rhymes Without Reason (1944), Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948) and Mr Pye (1953). He also wrote a number of plays including The Wit to Woo (1957), which was met by critical failure. Titus Alone was published in 1959. Mervyn Peake died in 1968.

Also by Mervyn Peake

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
Titus Awakes
Mr Pye
Titus Groan
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Gormenghast
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Praise for Titus Alone

[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.

Anthony Burgess

A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination

The Times

Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before

C. S. Lewis