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	Gormenghast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gormenghast is a fictional castle of titanic proportions that features prominently in a series of fantasy works penned by Mervyn Peake.
		Gormenghast is also commonly used in reference to this series, even though the castle is present for a very small amount of time in Titus Alone.
		The story follows the somewhat bizarre inhabitants of Gormenghast Castle, and chronicles the rise to power of Steerpike, a scheming kitchen boy, in the decaying monarchy of the house of Groan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gormenghast (2062 words)

	The Official CAN / Spoon Records Website
		The opera is in 3 acts and centres on the rise and fall of Steerpike, a courageous, clever and charming kitchen-boy who becomes by degrees the murderous tyrant of Gormenghast Castle and its domain.
		Gormenghast is a gigantic castle, ancient and labyrinthine.
		In Gormenghast there is no such thing as "normal" behaviour: every gesture and movement is carried out in a more or less stylised or ritualised manner, creating forms of dance.
	www.spoonrecords.com /gormenghast.html (1093 words)

	Titus Alone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finding himself lost, he suddenly discovers exactly how outdated his home really was, as he stumbles into a city of strange technological marvels, of shimmering metal and glass buildings, whose inhabitants travel by motorcar and airplane — and yet which also houses an entire culture of outcasts beneath the city itself in the "Under-River".
		She contrives an elaborate plan to drive him insane by recreating Gormenghast horrendously, but is foiled by Muzzlehatch, who dies in the effort.
		Hearing the guns of Gormenghast saluting the missing Earl, he is confirmed in his knowledge that he is not insane and that the Castle exists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titus_Alone (434 words)

	Sark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During WWII, the island was occupied by the Germans from 1940–1945, as with the other Channel Islands and was site of Operation Basalt.
		British author Mervyn Peake, best known for his Gormenghast trilogy, moved to Sark in 1946 with his family where he continued to write and illustrate, and his wife Maeve painted.
		Gormenghast was published in 1950, and the family moved back to England, settling in Smarden, Kent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sark (1203 words)

	Gormenghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy is a rich, weighty series of novels –; one that is as widely loved as it is hard to categorize, varying in tone from Tolkein-esque fantasy to Dickensian social drama to gothic horror a la Edgar Allan Poe.
		Life in Gormenghast seems to be an endless series of hollow ceremonies and pointless exercising of feudal privilege, while the caste-bound civilians toil fruitlessly in abject squalor.
		The Gormenghast books are filled with evocative images and wonderful gothic hyperbole, and this sort of thing is always very tricky to pluck from the mind and place on the screen without the whole thing being a letdown.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/Gormenghast.htm (972 words)

	Gormenghast - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Gormenghast : Steerpike is not the hero, he's a virus
		Gormenghast : Bring him back when he's eight...
		Based upon the first two of Mervyn Peake’s supposedly unfilmable trilogy of novels, ‘Titus Groan’ and ‘Gormenghast’, this BBC adaptation attempted to combine Fantasy (of a different tradition than the better-known Tolkien variation of Fantasy, but still Fantasy nonetheless) with the costume drama of which the BBC is so fond, to produce a programme...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/gormenghast (309 words)

	Gormenghast \| The Novels \| The Gormenghast Trilogy
		Peake often wrote in blank books called "publisher's dummies," and he filled the pages of his manuscripts with sketches and drawings of the characters and scenes of his story.
		Gormenghast was published in 1950 and won the 1950 Royal Society of Literature award (and the 1951 Heinemann Award for Literature along with Peake's collection of poetry, The Glassblowers).,.
		It was only after his death in 1968 when the Gormenghast novels were reissued by Penguin that Peake began to achieve the success and recognition he had been unable to attain in his lifetime.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/gormenghast/novels/trilogy.html (626 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Gormenghast (2000)
		Its themes of treachery, decay, madness and honor have come to be regarded as a metaphor for the fall of an empire, the passing of an age, and the rise of fascism.
		The glorious castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed for thousands of years.
		Gormenghast's fault lies in it's slow pace and the fact that some characters get away with the most absurd actions (and facial expressions) without it being noticed by a handful of other characters.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=14104 (422 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		Gormenghast is shot through with secret passages and moldy, forgotten wings.
		This makes him arguably the most powerful person in Gormenghast, and he is ready to stand against Titus himself for ultimate control of the castle and the destiny of its inhabitants.
		The Gormenghast books stand alongside classics like Dune and Lord of the Rings as widely loved, complex fantasies that long resisted film translation until being given space to develop their sprawling stories.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue226/screen2.html (798 words)

	Anybody else watched "Gormenghast?" - www.ezboard.com
		I watched Gormenghast, too, and found it to be an excellent rendition of the novels--as close as anyone is every likely to come.
		Gormenghast is the evil and he took it down.
		If Gormenghast is the status-quo, a metaphor for the status-quo of our world, then Steerpike is the anarchist, and Titus is the person who benefits from the change.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2001/aug2001/anybodygormenghast.html (2681 words)

	Irmin Schmidt: Gormenghast (The Grey Area) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Released on 31st January, Gormenghast is a fantasy opera inspired by the Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasy masterpiece.
		Gormenghast is in style and spirit a grand opera, yet it draws influences from rock opera and even adds populist and fantasy elements.
		Gormenghast, of course, is the lead drama in the BBC's new millennium celebration season.
	www.mutelibtech.com /mute/can/schmidt/gormenghast.htm (158 words)

	The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast
		Titus Groan and Gormenghast are such vivid and imaginative works that it is easy to assume Mervyn Peake raided everything he'd ever known in order to populate his fantasy world.
		Gormenghast is as much a product of Mervyn Peake's experiences of the horrors and futility of wartime Germany as it is of his happier times in China and Sark.
		The castle of Gormenghast is described as having boundaries that are as "irregular as the coastline of a squall-rent island", much like those of Sark.
	www.sfsite.com /depts/bbc04.htm (1260 words)

	Gormenghast - episode guide - tv serie
		His destructive impulse, however, succeeds in an unanticipated way: By the end of the second book, his actions have left Titus with the awareness that there is a world beyond Gormenghast, and with the desire to see it: Titus leaves.
		The book lacks Gormenghast by far the most interesting 'character' in the trilogy, and it lacks all the other characters who inhabited it.
		Except insofar as Gormenghast has shaped Titus, this book is almost unconnected to the other two.
	www.kartelle.com /episodes/gormenghast (529 words)

	Barbelith: Film: We all live in Gormenghast
		This inflexibility shows itself again in the rigid social hierarchy at play in Gormenghast, in the expectation that everyone will keep his or her place and know his or her duty.
		As for Steerpike himself, the ambitious kitchen boy who nearly destroys Gormenghast as he climbs through the social ranks, he stands as an object lesson: his attempts at change, his failure to "know his place," bring chaos into this wellordered world.
		Though Steerpike's singleminded determination is nearly heroic, he is ultimately thwarted by the same lack of imagination that afflicts the rest of the castle's inhabitants—he cannot imagine a world beyond Gormenghast, and so focuses all his efforts on improving his standing within that circle.
	www.barbelith.com /cgi-bin/articles/00000041.shtml (588 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gormenghast is an entire world and Titus comes to grips with his prime antagonist, the sinister kitchenboy Steerpike, amongst a brilliant profusion of characters and vivid detail.
		A fantasy trilogy first published in 1992, set in the world of Gormenghast castle, the kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir.
		The characters that populate Gormenghast are strange and seem slightly derranged (even more strange and derranged than some of the people down my local!), there are a number of characters who I really liked and others that freaked me out.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099284383 (1474 words)

	Gormenghast Trilogy, The : Volume 1 : Titus Groan
		At the center of everything is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom.
		In this first volume, the Gormenghast Castle and the noble family who inhabits it are introduced, along with the infant firstborn son of the Lord and Countess.
		Titus Groan is sent away to be raised by a wet nurse, with only a gold ring from his mother, and ordered not to be brought back until the age of six.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0786192658.html (359 words)

	"Gormenghast" (2000) (mini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plot Outline: A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.
		To me, the story of Titus Groan, 77'th earl of Gormenghast, is one that can actually compete with Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings".
		Gormenghast will provide a glimpse into our own world, and even though it's not always pretty, it's always done in beautiful colors.
	uk.imdb.com /title/tt0197154 (350 words)

	Richard Rodney BENNETT & John TAVENER Gormenghast: Classical CD Reviews-March 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gormenghast, the BBC adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast, the first two books of an uncompleted sequence of novels by Mervin Peak, is a major television event.
		Hopefully, Gormenghast marks the beginning of the BBC starting to put things right, though more realistically, it will probably be something the BBC use as an excuse to do nothing else for the next 30 years.
		Gormenghast is a vast, crumbling castle subject to arcane law and ruled by a detached and eccentric aristocracy.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/mar00/gormenghast.htm (739 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Gormenghast
		Overall, Gormenghast, was most influenced by Peake witnessing the huge socio-economic disparity in early 20th century China, and by the horrors of WWII, particularly the Belsen concentration camp, which he saw first-hand in his role as war artist for the British Ministry of Information.
		Gormenghast is one of those unique works that defines great fantasy while avoiding most of the paradigms of the genre.
		Now I'm not suggesting that Gormenghast should have been made as a silent movie, but perhaps more shadow play and something to bring out the vast yet claustrophobic webwork of passages, abandoned wings and forgotten rooms draped in centuries of dust might have more closely mirrored the mood of the books.
	www.sfsite.com /08b/gg110.htm (713 words)

	Gormenghast is Coming (to BBC America) \| 1900 House on PBS
		Based on the late Mervyn Peak's legendary Gormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan (1943), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959)) and featuring a truly all star cast, this 4-part extravaganza strives to add substance to the style shown in such recent television epics as Gulliver's Travels, Merlin and The Tenth Kingdom.
		In choosing the Gormenghast trilogy, the BBC embarked on one of its most lavish and ambitious efforts to date.
		A gothic fairly tale of decay and corruption, a decadent dance among the ruins of a warped society.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_television/39827 (393 words)

	Scriptorium - Mervyn Peake
		On the surface Titus Groan is a brilliant, highly unusual gothic romance set in the sprawling castle of Gormenghast whose endless, ridiculous rituals echo a Kafkaesque nightmare and whose absurd and melancholic characters seem to have strayed from Dickens.
		In the final book Titus finally escapes Gormenghast and enters the "real" world, but Peake's version of this "objective" world proves to be just as bizarre and grotesque as Gormenghast itself.
		The BBC maintains a Gormenghast page detailing their sumptuous series based on the novels.
	www.libyrinth.com /scriptorium/peake.html (1324 words)

	Gormenghast
		The novels created the world of the castle Gormenghast, a dry, dusty place where tradition controls the lives of the royal family of Groan and the people that live in the area.
		As with all people in Gormenghast his future is bleak, laid out before him in stone.
		You feel as though you are walking the dark halls of castle Gormenghast, dist at your feet, the smell of countless generations in your nostrils.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /gormenghast.htm (942 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gormenghast Novels: Books: Mervyn Peake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle.
		The Gormenghast royal family, the castle's decidedly eccentric staff, and the peasant artisans living around the dreary, crumbling structure make up the cast of characters in these engrossing stories.
		Gormenghast was never meant to be a trilogy - Peake succumbed to Parkinson's during Titus Alone - and the thought that the world of Gormenghast followed Peake into the depths of the Earth leaves me feeling as empty as the forgotten halls of Gormenghast castle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879516283?v=glance (2559 words)

	DVD Times - Gormenghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gormenghast tells the tale of a vast gothic/fantasy city, Gormenghast, which it is said it would take five hours to cross.
		The scale is so large that many of the servants born and brought up in the gutters of Gormenghast have never even seen a Groan, yet they know that the Groans are the lifeblood of Gormenghast and it is their sworn duty to do everything in their power to serve and please the family.
		This is very important to Gormenghast, as the set is moody and sometimes hidden in shadows, contrasted with sudden shots of light and colour, and all are shown crisply on these DVDs.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4857 (1438 words)

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