Gormenghast

Novel, Fantasy of manners by Mervyn Peake

Blurb

"In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence." John Constable 'pulled off the impossible' (The Times) with his stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. Commissioned and produced by the David Glass Ensemble, this gruesome, gothic drama has since become a landmark in the history of adaptation for the stage.

First Published

1950

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