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Mervyn Peake

Born

in Kuling, Jiangxi, China

July 09, 1911

Died

November 17, 1968

Website

http://www.mervynpeake.org/

Genre

Fantasy, Poetry, Fiction

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Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books, though the Titus books would be more accurate: the three works that exist were the beginning of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, following his protagonist Titus Groan from cradle to grave, but Peake's untimely death prevented completion of the cycle, which is now commonly but erroneously referred to as a trilogy. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J.R.R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

Peake also wrote poetry ...more

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Exhibition of paintings and drawings

A particularly-fine exhibition of Mervyn Peake's work which includes characters from Gormenghast is now on show at the Viktor Wynd Gallery in East London. The exhibition continues until September 2019. Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.94 · 64,165 ratings · 5,567 reviews · 110 distinct works • Similar authors

	Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 23,594 ratings — published 1946 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 14,915 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess, Quentin Crisp (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 9,887 ratings — published 1959 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3) 3.45 avg rating — 6,175 ratings — published 1959 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Pye 3.69 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 1953 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy in Darkness and Other Stories by Mervyn Peake, Sebastian Peake (Editor), Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.04 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy in Darkness (Gormenghast #2.5) by Mervyn Peake, P.J. Lynch (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1956 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from a Lost Uncle 4.08 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 1948 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor 4.08 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1939 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings 4.25 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mervyn Peake (?)

“And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: autumn, copy, cry, crying, despair, fall, howl, metaphor, mimic, poetic, rain, shakespearean, simile, wind, wit

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“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: alone, loneliness

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“We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

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Polls

Please select the author you would like to read in November 2019. Poll ends 10/9/19.

Please note that if Mervyn Peake, Isaac Asimov, or Robertson Davies wins the poll, then there will not be a follow-up poll. This is because all 3 have a trilogy (and no other works) listed on James Mustich's list and we will read the first book in that author's trilogy if one of them win.

Isaac Asimov

6 votes, 37.5%

Jane Austen

3 votes, 18.8%

Samuel Beckett

2 votes, 12.5%

Robertson Davies

2 votes, 12.5%

Ernest Hemingway

2 votes, 12.5%

Mervyn Peake

1 vote, 6.3%

Robert A. Caro

0 votes, 0.0%

16 total votes

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Exhibition of paintings and drawings

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Mervyn Peake's Blog

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Mervyn Peake’s books