Gormenghast
Contributors: Quentin Crisp (Afterword)
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Overlook TP; Overlook Press
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781585679454
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; English Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: "Titus Groan is seven, 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 stairacse to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder"--P. [4] of cover.