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Mervyn Peake

Born

in Kuling, Jiangxi, China

July 09, 1911

Died

November 17, 1968

Website

http://www.mervynpeake.org/

Genre

Fantasy, Poetry, Fiction

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Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books, though the Titus books would be more accurate: the three works that exist were the beginning of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, following his protagonist Titus Groan from cradle to grave, but Peake's untimely death prevented completion of the cycle, which is now commonly but erroneously referred to as a trilogy. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J.R.R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

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Exhibition of paintings and drawings

A particularly-fine exhibition of Mervyn Peake's work which includes characters from Gormenghast is now on show at the Viktor Wynd Gallery in East London. The exhibition continues until September 2019. Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.94 · 59,668 ratings · 4,849 reviews · 103 distinct works • Similar authors

	Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 21,313 ratings — published 1946 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 14,065 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess, Quentin Crisp (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 9,543 ratings — published 1959 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3) 3.45 avg rating — 5,659 ratings — published 1959 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Pye 3.69 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 1953 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy in Darkness and Other Stories by Mervyn Peake, Sebastian Peake (Editor), Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 358 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy in Darkness (Gormenghast #2.5) by Mervyn Peake, P.J. Lynch (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from a Lost Uncle 4.10 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1948 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor 4.06 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1939 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings 4.24 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mervyn Peake (?)

“And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: autumn, copy, cry, crying, despair, fall, howl, metaphor, mimic, poetic, rain, shakespearean, simile, wind, wit

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“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: alone, loneliness

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“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower

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Polls

June 2014 Contemporary Classic -

Which book would you like to read for our June 2014 Contemporary Classic Group Read?

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

64 votes, 23.8%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

38 votes, 14.1%

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

35 votes, 13.0%

Watership Down by Richard Adams

26 votes, 9.7%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

16 votes, 5.9%

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

14 votes, 5.2%

The Collector by John Fowles

12 votes, 4.5%

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

10 votes, 3.7%

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

10 votes, 3.7%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

8 votes, 3.0%

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

8 votes, 3.0%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

8 votes, 3.0%

The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

5 votes, 1.9%

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

5 votes, 1.9%

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

4 votes, 1.5%

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

3 votes, 1.1%

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

3 votes, 1.1%

269 total votes

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