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The Gormenghast Trilogy 1: Titus Groan Mervyn Peake
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Gormenghast, the second volume of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, opens with an extraordinary series of portraits in words. The Gormenghast Trilogy Reread – Titus Groan. I fear that After having read the trilogy three times, I've come to accept T. Well, I've finally got round to it. A series by Mervyn Peake made of the novels Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone and the lesser-known novella "Boy In Darkness", which take place sometime before the second book. In describing the characters, Peake revisits key episodes of Titus Groan; as such, the word paintings can serve as a reminder for the returning reader about to begin Gormenghast, or an introduction for the new one. Considering that the first two books, Titus Groan and Gormenghast, had introductions written by Anthony Burgess and Tad Williams, respectively, I felt pretty honored to get the invitation. I made slow and steady progress through the first half of book 1 (Titus Groan). When Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast was first published in 1950, readers got to the end of the book and found that Titus Groan rides away from the ancient ancestral home that had been the setting for Peake's epic tale of As a dramatist, having spent many months locked in the stifling, ritual-bound world of Gormenghast castle, I felt as anxious and uncertain as our hero when we had to turn our backs on the great sprawling castle and head off into the unknown. I've read Titus Groan many times, Gormenghast twice (and not recently) and Titus Alone once, and I suspect that's a common pattern. I first had a go at reading the Gormenghast trilogy about 24 years ago, at the age of 19, when I was reading a lot of science and fantasy fiction. Why did I never read past book one? For first and ever foremost he is child. Late last year, I was asked to write the introduction to Overlook Press' new edition of Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone, last novel of the so-called Gormenghast Trilogy. In fact, Titus Groan is the first of a trilogy.