Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

first published 1967 Overlook TP, 2007 paperback 512 pages

Gormenghast (2)

"Titus Groan is seven, Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascendin...

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Gormenghast paperback · 2007 · Overlook TP · 512 pages · 9781585679454
Gormenghast paperback · 2007 · Oberon Books · 96 pages · 9781840026733
Gormenghast paperback · 2005 · VINTAGE (RAND) · 512 pages · 9780749394820
Gormenghast audiobook · 2002 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786192663
Gormenghast audiobook · 2000 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786198009
Gormenghast audiobook · 2000 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786118755
Gormenghast audiobook · 1995 · ISIS Audio Books · 9781856959773
Gormenghast edition · 1991 · Overlook Press
Gormenghast edition · 1989 · Mandarin · 511 pages
The Gormenghast trilogy edition · 1988 · Overlook Press · 1023 pages
Gormenghast edition · 1985 · Methuen · 511 pages
Gormenghast edition · 1982 · Penguin in association with Eyre & Spottiswoode · 511 pages

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