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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.
		Gormenghast Castle is the setting for the first two books in the series, Titus Groan and Gormenghast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gormenghast (2091 words)

	Titus Groan (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The book is set in the huge castle of Gormenghast, a vast landscape of crumbling towers and ivy-filled quadrangles that has for centuries been the hereditary residence of the Groan family and with them a legion of servants.
		His entry into Gormenghast society, at the same time as Lord Titus is born, introduces a steady rate of change into a stagnant world.
		Steerpike hoped to become master of ceremonies (a very prestigious job in Gormenghast) after Sourdust died, but the title, like so many things in the castle, is hereditary, and so goes to Sourdust’s seventy-six-year-old son Barquentine, who has lived almost completely forgotten in a remote part of the castle for sixty years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titus_Groan_(novel) (2382 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)

	Mervyn Peake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese influences can be detected in his work, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the closed, walled compunds he grew up in and noted in his 'Notes for a Projected Autobiography' (1950), that of the London Missionary Society in Tianjin, and of the Tientsin Grammar School.
		Gormenghast was published in 1950, and the family moved back to England, settling in Smarden, Kent.
		It starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, Neve McIntosh as Fuchsia, June Brown as Nannie Slagg, Ian Richardson as Lord Groan, Christopher Lee as Flay, Richard Griffiths as Swelter, Warren Mitchell as Barquentine, Celia Imrie as Countess Gertrude, Lynsey Baxter and Zoe Wanamaker as the twins, Cora and Clarice, and John Sessions as Dr Prunesquallor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mervyn_Peake (1840 words)

	Gormenghast \| The Novels \| The Gormenghast Trilogy
		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).,.
		These novels are not an echo or an imitation of life.
		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)

	Gormenghast (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gormenghast is a novel by Mervyn Peake, and is the second book in his Gormenghast Series of novels (sometimes known as The Titus Books).
		Titus, as the 77th earl and lord of Gormenghast, dreads the life of pre-ordained ritual that stretches before him.
		Steerpike, however, is in reality a dangerous traitor to Gormenghast, and is eventually unmasked as a murderer, and later killed by Titus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gormenghast_(novel) (267 words)

	frieze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sixty years on from the publication of Mervyn Peake’s novel Titus Groan (1946) it is safe to say that there has never been a literary edifice quite like the vast, ponderous castle of Gormenghast that squats monstrously across this book and its two successors, Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959), recently reprinted by Vintage.
		The doors like eye-teeth missing from the bone’ Gormenghast provides a living, breathing maze — the architecture of the novel in the guise of architecture — through which the book’s characters, ‘the passions in their clay’, wander, as if scraped from the thick walls themselves.
		Gormenghast is quite vast enough a canvas for these deeds to take place in.
	www.frieze.com /column_single.asp?c=324 (763 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gormenghast Novels: Books: Mervyn Peake,Anthony Burgess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time.
	www.amazon.ca /Gormenghast-Novels-Mervyn-Peake/dp/0879516283 (1537 words)

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		The Gormenghast trilogy (***+) is unique -- a triumph of skill over what looks at first sight to be an impossibly unpromising premise.
		We take these people at their self-estimation and enter a world where Gormenghast is as much of the universe as matters.
		The book lacks Gormenghast -- by far the most interesting 'character' in the trilogy -- and it lacks all the other characters who inhabited it.
	home.earthlink.net /~ellendebrock/peake/review.htm (884 words)

	Amazon.de: The Gormenghast Trilogy: English Books: Mervyn Peake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		Gormenghast is a vast crumbling castle to which the 77th Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir.
		Above all, it is a book of extremely beautiful language and vivid imagery, created by metaphors that strike one at once imaginative and true to the heart; it is a novel that made me both laugh helplessly at its dry humour and gasp at the fantastic beauty of its prose.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099288893 (1188 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)

	The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast
		The teachers in the novel and the giant tree outside the classroom window were so reminiscent of the people and locations of Eltham School that Peake's classmate Gordon Smith recognised it all.
		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 novel is also a result of Peake's tenacity as a writer; the core of the book was researched and honed during the tedious wartime evenings.
	www.sfsite.com /depts/bbc04.htm (1260 words)

	Dark Matters (Science) Fiction by Alastair Reynoldsl The Agony Column for July 30, 2002 Commentary by Rick Kleffel
		Of course, immense is surely the watchword with these three huge novels, any one of which has enough pages to comprise a cheesy fantasy trilogy.
		As in Gormenghast, there's a bit of humor built into Reynolds' dark vision, an appreciation of the absurdity that follows humans and their creations.
		A literary feel pervades the novel as the strands unwind and the onion is peeled, layer by layer.
	trashotron.com /agony/columns/07-30-02.htm (1581 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.
		But underneath the eccentricities of the novel is a very modern meditation on the evil and madness of the world, and particularly of the Second World War.
		The BBC maintains a Gormenghast page detailing their sumptuous series based on the novels.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/peake.html (1324 words)

	Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It emphasised two things that I had already thought: that the atmosphere of the novels were excellently recreated, and that the casting was very intelligent.
		Gormenghast is related to Peake's ideas about pre-Communist China, where he spent a good deal of his childhood.
		That of Gormenghast is empty, and often seems to be invented by the keepers of the ritual, Sourdust and his son Barquentine (sensibly coalesced into one character in the TV version).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0628.html (387 words)

	Mervyn Peake's inspirations for Gormenghast
		Arundel castle has often been refered to as the principal contender for my father's inspiration for Gormenghast, and although this is undoubtedly one theory, the castle should be seen more as just one of many candidates, for the setting of the novel.
		It does not however take much of a leap of imagination to observe Steerpike as he climbs the walls of the castle, now not Gormenghast, but Arundel, while Fuschia waits, unaware of the imminent arrival of the dangerous interloper as he makes his way to her attic, through the ivy.
		In celebrating the longevity of the novel and its many incarnations, the origins of which began in a tiny Sussex village in wartime Britain, it is vital to remember the important part which China played in the author's life, while Arundel, although significant, played no more than a walk-on part in the world of Gormenghast.
	www.mervynpeake.org /gormenghast/story.html (664 words)

	Amazon.com: Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy, Vol 3): Books: Mervyn Peake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Of course, no one there has ever heard of Gormenghast, and the general opinion is that the boy is deranged, and with no paper, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.
		Leaving Gormenghast and its (surviving) inhabitants behind, the novel centres on the character of Titus, and crucially puts the earlier novels in context.
		Despite his mother's warnings at the end of Gormenghast, there is indeed a world beyond the walls, and a world which has progressed beyond the ritual and claustrophobia of the castle itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879511451?v=glance (1656 words)

	Gormenghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Within just a few pages you will have been consumed completely, the Castle of Gormenghast will have become totally real to you, because it is the Castle that is the central character, it governs all actions, it surrounds everything, it is life itself.
		When will Film and TV producers realise that some books are unfilmable, not because they are complex or difficult, but because the novel is a more sophisticated media form than the purely visual media.
		I've had my vision of Gormenghast living somewhere in my mind for about 25 years now and I don't wish to see someone elses vision.
	parnham.members.beeb.net /Fantasy/Novels/Gormenghast.htm (1305 words)

	Books into film and television: G - Recreation - Christchurch City Libraries
		The novel is inspired by the famous painting of the title and the anonymous girl in it.
		From the novel The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh
		From the 1936 novel The Gnomobile by Upton Sinclair
	library.christchurch.org.nz /guides/BooksIntoFilm/G.asp (883 words)

	Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It combines an exciting story, one of the most famous and evocative backgrouns of any novel, deeper levels of symbolism, humour, tragedy and a hero who is easy to identify with.
		On a deeper lever, there are clearly meanings to many of the events in Gormenghast and its surrounding countryside.
		The tradition of the castle has something at least to do with the conventions of society; the freedom that Titus yearns for is represented by his foster sister, the wild forest-dwelling Thing; and her death is clearly important though its meaning is less so.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0686.html (483 words)

	"Gormenghast" (2000) (mini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Trivia: The miniatures of Gormenghast Castle were made by the same department that made the futuristic Hyde Park "Xanadu" Hotel Tower for Dennis Potter's last TV series "Cold Lazarus".
		Thrown into the brew are his wife (played by Celia Imrie), his demented twin sisters (played by Lynsey Baxter and Zoe Wanamaker), his fanciful daughter Fuchsia (Neve McIntosh), and her Nannie (June Brown).
		The script, adapted by Malcolm McKay from the Mervyn Peake novels, is appropriately abridged and remains very true to the books.
	uk.imdb.com /title/tt0197154 (832 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Gormenghast Comes To PBS And PBS.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cameron Powrie plays the child Titus, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, and Andrew Robertson is teenage Titus, who must balance a fierce hatred for his dysfunctional clan with the duty to rid the House of Groan of its usurper, Steerpike.
		Gormenghast’s producer Estelle Daniel detects a political undertone: “It’s a study in corruption.
		Gormenghast is a BBC AMERICA/WGBH Boston coproduction for PBS in association with CHUM Television and presented on PBS.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/iwpr?id=28427&cat=en (802 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Gormenghast Novels: Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone: Books: Mervyn Laurence Peake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mervyn Peake's novels thankfully defy genre and allow us a panoramic vision of a world at once fascinating and abominable, expansive and stifling.
		Gormenghast presents itself to the reader again and again, long after the words are spent, in half-waking images that reek of childhood bogeys and birthdays.
		The Gormenghast Novels are works that are in a class of there own.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Gormenghast-Novels-Titus-Groan-Alone/dp/0879516283 (1083 words)

	Gormenghast DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		I was excited to learn, in 2005, that "Gormenghast" would be played on public television in Wisconsin (albeit late at night).
		If you have read the novel, and STILL like this, you must have been looking for something far different from what you read...
		The series is absolutely dripping with symbolism (as the original)--from the name of the feudal family, Groan, to the absurd daily rituals, to the very (ehem) feminine opening that lets young Titus out of the castle walls.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00005B9CZ (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Gormenghast: DVD: Andy Wilson (IV),Jonathan Rhys Meyers,Celia Imrie,Ian Richardson,Neve ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The narrative, based on the first two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begins with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude.
		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.
		As a result, Gormenghast is slightly too pretty at times to convey the sense of Gothic dissolution Peake intended: even the campsite of the carvers seems gussied up in pretty green decor.
	www.amazon.com /Gormenghast-Andy-Wilson-IV/dp/B00005B9CZ (2610 words)

	DVD Booty - Gormenghast
		Normally it happens that when novels are turned into movie, the movie is not as glamorous as the novel.In this case the reverse holds.
		Everybody fits their role and acts with that special air that is demanded by the novel.
		Gormenghast is also commonly used in reference to this series, even though the...
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/gormenghast (254 words)

	Gormenghast - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-68)
		A version was published in 1959, based on his manuscripts, and a revised version was printed in the UK in 1970, edited by Langdon Jones.
		His reputation as an author is based on the three Titus novels: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959; revised edition edited by Langdon Jones, 1970).
		His other work includes the novel Mr Pye (televised by the BBC in the 1980s, with Derek Jacobi in the title role), the children's story Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (which he also illustrated), and illustrations for Treasure Island and The Hunting of the Snark.
	www.gormenghastcastle.co.uk /peake.html (342 words)

	SciFi Audio China Mieville reading from his novel, "Scar"
		Maybe it's because, in contrast to the elitism and neo-feudalism of a lot of fantasy, he brings a hard-boiled socialist sensibility to the table (he's even run for Parliament).
		Whatever the reason, the critics are near-unanimous in singing his praises, and his previous novel, "Perdido Street Station", won both the Arthur C Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award in 2001, as well as being shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and the Hugo.
		"Scar", his new novel, is set in the same intricate, fantastic, and dangerous world of Bas-Mal, and will probably earn Miéville more knicknacks for his mantelpiece.
	www.scifiaudio.com /authors/mieville.html (720 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gormenghast Novels: Books: Mervyn Peake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gormenghast is not a fantasy, but fantastical literature.
		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.
		For these novels, while I'm increasingly growing to hate, for the sake of the enthusiastic readers out there I'm still giving a small inch of chance to win itself back.
	www.amazon.com /Gormenghast-Novels-Mervyn-Peake/dp/0879516283 (2575 words)

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