{"product_id":"gormenghast-9781585679454","title":"Gormenghast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The true fantasy classic of our time.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For generations of fantasy fans, this masterpiece ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A young earl's future in a sprawling castle could be changed by a feral girl and a cunning servant in this acclaimed gothic fantasy trilogy's second entry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Titus Groan is seven years old, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGormenghast\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume in Mervyn Peake's acclaimed Gormenghast trilogy, but it's much more than a sequel to \u003ci\u003eTitus Groan\u003c\/i\u003e--it's an enrichment and deepening of that book. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Tad Williams\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterword by Quentin Crisp\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Gormenghast Trilogy: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There is nothing in literature like Mervyn Peake's remarkable Gormenghast novels . . . They were crafted by a master, who was also an artist, and they take us to an ancient castle as big as a city, with heroes and villains and people larger than life that are impossible to forget.\" --Neil Gaiman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.\" --C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeake, Mervyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMervyn Peake\u003c\/b\u003e (1911-1968) was a playwright, painter, poet, illustrator, short story writer, and designer of theatrical costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the celebrated Gormenghast novels, \u003ci\u003eTitus Groan, Gormenghast, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTitus Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, and the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eTitus Awakes\u003c\/i\u003e, the lost book of Gormenghast finished by Peake's wife Maeve Gilmore after his death\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Gormenghast novels, as well as Peake's other writings \u003ci\u003eMr. Pye\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeake's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, are all available from The Overlook Press.","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621049209106,"sku":"9781585679454","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dfc8dfb-884c-4cfa-a021-668829236a5a.jpg?v=1732579798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gormenghast-9781585679454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}