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Gormenghast Trilogy - Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone

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Gormenghast Trilogy - Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
Mervyn Peake
Manufacturer: Vintage
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ASIN: 0099284383

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One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century: Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Earl Titus Groan is lord and heir. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

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Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy, 3)

Manufacturer: Ballantine
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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TITUS GROAN - VOLUME 1 OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY

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First printing of Ballantine's "revised, illustrated" edition, with cover by Pepper and line drawings by the author (who was himself a highly-regarded illustrator).

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY (The Titus Books) Book (1) One: Titus Groan; Book (2) Two: Gormenghast; Book (3) Three: Titus Alone (Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series)

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THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY (The Titus Books) Book (1) One: Titus Groan; Book (2) Two: Gormenghast; Book (3) Three: Titus Alone (Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series)
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Binding: Paperback
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Titus Alone
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TITUS ALONE - Volume III of "The Gormenghast Trilogy"

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TITUS ALONE - Volume III of "The Gormenghast Trilogy"
Mervyn Peake
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Titus Alone

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Titus Alone - The Gormenghast Trilogy, Volume Three

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Titus Books (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone)

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Titus Books (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone)
Mervyn Laurence Peake
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Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy, Vol 3)

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Gormenghast trilogy - could it be read better by anyone else?
Frustrating.
Barely related to the first 2 books
Awesome Virtuosity
A new beginning rather than an ending

Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy, Vol 3)
Mervyn Peake
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Gormenghast
Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy)

ASIN: 0879511451

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Gormenghast trilogy - could it be read better by anyone else?.......2005-11-12

I began to fall for the wonders of the world of Titus and Gormenghast after reading Titus Groan. The complexity and intensity of the language at times feels more like poetry than prose. For more info on the trilogy itself read the editorial review at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879516283/103-7360864-2418208?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance. If you can imagine Dickens writing gothic fantasy with the linguistic range of a poet then you are close. After buying the Audiobook trilogy by Michael Williams I can't recommend it highly enough. His voice is as rich as the characters that he is required to give life to. By turns crackling, humorous, bitter, angry, pathetic, depressed, ludicrous: Michael Williams voice catches the many moods and characters of these world's inhabitants and manages to convey the spidery, rasping, cloistered, dark and gothic atmosphere. If Amazon don't have it ask them to stock it! Also don't be put off by what some people say about the third book the third book is a classic if only for the character of Muzzlehatch.

Frustrating........2004-06-07

This is the third and last volume of the Gormenghast trilogy (after Titus Groan, and Gormenghast).

In this book, 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, he ends up in a big city. Of course, no one there has ever heard of Gormenghast, and the general opinion is that the boy is deranged, and with no paper, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.

Hopefully, 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.

I don't know how closely Titus Alone actually follows Mervyn Peake's intentions before mental illness struck him, but this final volume is indeed chaotic. Its characters and style, its setting and atmosphere have little to do with both previous books. Or maybe it's just me who didn't understand anything, but nevertheless, all I felt was bitter frustration.

Barely related to the first 2 books.......2002-06-22

This is supposed to be part 3 of the trilogy, but it has VERY little to do with the first 2 books (both of which I loved, BTW). The only thing in common with the first books is the character of Titus (who was a baby in the first book, so was really only a character in the second book). The first 2 books spend much (most) of their time in a rather enchanting world that is confined to a castle and the immediate area around it, yet none of this book takes place there. Much more disturbing, however, is this volume takes place in a VERY different time period than the first two books. The first 2 take place in a castle that is lit by candles and has no visible technology (the only thing that is described that was invented in the last 800 years is a reference to "guns", but they are never used and it is unknown how primitive the "guns" would be). In this book they have cars, airplanes(!), and tiny self propelled spy devices that don't even exist today! (Not to mention helmets that give you superhuman strength, and other fantastic future things - it goes from medieval castle straight to comic-book future). It is not even internally consistant - one woman flys an airplane to visit a ruin she last saw during a failed expedition to explore the unknown in one direction, an expedition that had to quit because of an unpenatratable LINE OF TREES (were the trees so tall they could stop the airplanes?). At "plot" is barely in existance, and has lots of people doing things for no rational or decernable reason (really a stark contrast to the first 2 stories, which went to some length to give you insight into the characters).
Read the first two, then skip this one - it is not only not in their league, it will actually diminish your remembered enjoyment of the first two.

Awesome Virtuosity.......2000-06-03

To my knowlege, the only thing ever written in the English language that even comes close is Shakespeare's latter plays. For characterization, plot, description, humor, pathos and sheer gothic intensity and wonder, Peake's Gormenghast trilogy may be without parallel in all of human literature.

Read it and find out what the English language is capable of.

A new beginning rather than an ending.......1999-10-30

I enjoyed this book very much but it IS rather different from the preceding novels (Titus Groan, Gormenghast), which are really complete as a pair. Though related it is not necessary to have read them in order to follow the action of this story.

Young Titus Groan, Lord of Gormenghast after his Father's assassination and the death of the villainous Steerforth, decides to set out to see something of the world beyond the eccentric traditions of his decayed and moribund realm. He finds a decaying and eccentric city, where he makes some allies as he becomes a nine-days wonder.

Peake excelled at depiction of a monstrous and decaying world filled with wierd eccentrics. If you like that kind of thing, you'll love this book!

Titus Alone
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Titus Alone
MERVYN PEAKE
Manufacturer: Ballantine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q65G84

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