num_pages: 505
description: Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder.Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan—it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
language: English
title: Gormenghast
titlecomplete: Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
characters: Mr. Flay, Irma Prunesquallor, Fuchsia Groan, Titus Groan, The Thing (Gormenghast), Barquentine, Bellgrove, Cora Groan, Gertrude Groan, Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor, Clarice Groan, Steerpike
genres: Classics, British Literature, Fantasy, Gothic, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 13513
places: Gormenghast
series: Gormenghast
awards: awardedAt: -599587200000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Vintage