TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peake,Mervyn Laurence
TI  - Gormenghast
T2  - Gormenghast trilogy
SN  - 1585679453 (pbk.)
AV  - PR6031.E183 G63 2007
U1  - 823/.912 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Woodstock, N.Y.
PB  - Overlook Press
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Castles
KW  - Nobility
N1  - Originally published: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950; "First published in 1992 by The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc."--T.p. verso
N2  - 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 ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder
ER  -