3.5
Titus Alone
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As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with the force and vividness of a dream—or a nightmare.
This final installment in the Gormenghast Trilogy is a fantastic triumph—a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm.
"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
"[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
"Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work." —Robertson Davies,
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“the way mr. mervyn peake’s brain works is the most beautiful work of art. i quite loved this final chapter in titus’s saga, for it really brought home the whole message throughout the series: that one person’s life is a picture of the world around them & we are but little figures whose stories can be told by telling the tale of everything we experience, everyone place we go and everyone we meet and care for. lovely. his work reads like slow poetry and i am envious of how vast and yet concise his imagination is…”
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“This was my least favorite book of the series. I missed Gormenghast. It felt like a switch had been flipped and Titus went from being the main character to having everything and everyone in the book revolve around him, which was not an improvement for me.”
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