Poet, illustrator, painter, and playwright, as well as novelist, Mervyn Peake's major achievement in prose is his Gormenghast trilogy, one of the most vividly sustained flights of imagination of postw...
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To label Mervyn Peake as a fantasy writer is to focus on his Titus novels--Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959; second edition, 1970), arguably his most well-known prose--as ...
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Mervyn Laurence Peake's reputation during his lifetime as an outstanding illustrator of children's books is based on his illustrations for the Alice books (1946), Treasure Island (1949), and the Grimm...
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Mervyn Peake