Gormenghast / Mervyn Peake ; with an introduction by Tad Williams.
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TextSeries: Gormenghast trilogy: bk. 2.Publisher: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, [2007]Description: xiv, 409 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 1585679453 (pbk.); 9781585679454 (pbk.)Subject(s): Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Castles -- Fiction | Nobility -- FictionDDC classification: 823/.912 LOC classification: PR6031.E183 | G63 2007Summary: 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.
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Originally published: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950.
"First published in 1992 by The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc."--T.p. verso.
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.
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