“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.”
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<b>ENTER THE CRUMBLING WORLD OF GORMENGHAST...<br> <br> 'A modern classic'</b> <b>Anthony Burgess<br> <br> 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption...</b> <b>A work of extraordinary imagination'</b><br> <b><i>New Yorker</i><br> <br> 'A perfect creation' Neil Gaiman</b><br> <br> <i>Gormenghast</i> is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.<br> <br> <b>'Peake's books are actual additions to life;</b> <b>they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before'</b> <b>C. S. Lewis</b>
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Mervyn Peake
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