Gormenghast

Title: Gormenghast Author: Mervyn Peake ISBN: 9781585679454 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fantasy 1643586 Publisher Description: "The true fantasy classic of our time." --Washington Post Book World For generations of fantasy fans, this masterpiece ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. A young earl's future in a sprawling castle could be changed by a feral girl and a cunning servant in this acclaimed gothic fantasy trilogy's second entry. 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,