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	Mervyn Peake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peake also wrote poetry and nonsense verse, short stories for adults and children ("Letters from a Lost Uncle"), stage and radio plays, and "Mr Pye", a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.
		Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people.
		Mervyn Peake was born in Kuling in central China in 1911 of British parents; his father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a doctor and Christian missionary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mervyn_Peake (1731 words)

	mervyn peake - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Peake also wrote a number of nonsense poems, a children's story "Letters from a Lost Uncle", a radio play and "Mr Pye", a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.
		Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was often commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people.
		Peake taught part-time at the Central School of Art, began what was to be his last novel Mr Pye and renewed his interest in theatre.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Mervyn-Peake (1434 words)

	Gormenghast \| The Novels \| Who Was Mervyn Peake?
		Mervyn Peake, a man of many talents, a creative virtuoso, and an eccentric genius, had a profound and singular interior idea.
		Peake was born in Kuling, China, in 1911 to English missionary parents, Ernest Cromwell Peake, a doctor, and Elizabeth (Powell) Peake.
		Mervyn taught part time at the Central School of Art, and in 1953, after the death of his father, moved his family to his parents' house south of the city.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/gormenghast/novels/peake.html (1171 words)

	Scriptorium - Mervyn Peake
		Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of British parents.
		Peake's muscular use of language and haunting use of imagery and incident ensure that Titus Groan is no gothic flight of fancy but a sustained, tragic and pathetically farcical vision as solid as castle Gormenghast itself.
		Peake is revealed in the book as a hardworking, humorous, sensitive man totally in love with his wife yet somehow remaining solitary and troubled.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/peake.html (1324 words)

	Mervyn Peake
		Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a modernist writer and illustrator, best known for the Gormenghast trilogy of books.
		He also wrote a number of nonsense poems, a children's story "Letters from a lost Uncle", a radio play and "Mr Pye", a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.
		Peake visited Belsen in the aftermath of World War II in the capacity of war artist; this visit had a profound effect upon him.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Mervyn_Peake.html (170 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » An Excellence of Peake
		Peake’s own suspicion of academics and clerics, evident from his books, made him a little wary of Lewis’s friendly overtures and he was rather more pleased by the attention he received from Elizabeth Bowen, Angus Wilson and others, whom he did read.
		Peake certainly never had a cult develop around him the way it did with poor Tolkien, whose last years were often made miserable by his fans.
		Peake manages it because, with him, grandiloquence never means diffuseness; there is no musical emptiness in the most romantic of his descriptions.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /show.html?ey,peake,1 (486 words)

	Mervyn Peake - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mervyn Peake was born in Kuling, China, in 1911, and came to England in 1923.
		Mervyn Peake is perhaps best known for his Titus books - Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) - which are considered to be one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
		For his novel Gormenghast and his poem The Glassblowers Mervyn Peake was awarded the W. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950, and was made a Fellow in 1951.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000024711,00.html (244 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.
		Peake makes two major mistakes: he leaves behind the castle, which is the main character in the previous books, and he focuses on the picaresque plot instead of Titus' character.
		Peake challenges, assaults and titilates the senses, and harnessses a gargantuan imagination and an immense vocabulary to give birth to a million detailed portraits, interconnected and intertwined in a thick, dense, dark world of crumbling, decrepit, moss-eaten stone of Gormenghast.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879516283?v=glance (2576 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Gormenghast Trilogy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peake's work is rarely compared with that other great fantasy trilogy to come out of the immediately post-war years, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings but in ways the two works do go together.
		Although Tolkien is plain and expansive where Peake is elaborate, poetic and inward-looking, both authors nonetheless use a detailed imaginative escapism in order to talk about the concerns of their day--specifically the passing of the old certainties of traditional England and the coming of something new.
		The new television series, with which this edition ties in, promises great things but the best part of Mervyn Peake is to be found in his ornate, poetic writing; his grasp of the Dickensian oddities of character and the utterly unique atmosphere of the books.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099288893 (1498 words)

	The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast
		Mervyn Peake was born near the Yangtse River in China's Kiang-Hsi Province during 1911.
		Peake's son Sebastian claims that this distinction between locals and devils underpins the logic and aims of Gormenghast: "China is there the whole time, underlying the edifice of Gormenghast".
		Peake was not a committed soldier; whilst being trained in how to use a theodolite he simply gave up.
	www.sfsite.com /depts/bbc04.htm (1260 words)

	The Official CAN / Spoon Records Website
		Peake is the most accomplished Fantastic Realist in modern English literatue, having more stylistically in common with Dickens than with any of his British contemporaries.
		Peake is born in Kuling, Central China, son of a missionary doctor and his wife.
		Peake finishes 'Titus Groan' and 'Gormenghast' and completes illustrations for 'Ride a Cock Horse', 'The Hunting of the Sark', 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Grimm's Household Tales'.
	www.spoonrecords.com /peake.html (1008 words)

	Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peake makes more of the way in which it affects every part of every inhabitant rather than exhibiting the castle directly.
		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.
		Peake has assembled all these elements to make up one of the greatest cult classics of the twentieth century.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0686.html (483 words)

	Mervyn Peake Pathfinder
		Memory is a recurring theme among Peake scholars, particularly as Mervyn Peake was slowly robbed of his memory due to the onslaught of Parkinson's disease.
		While Peake channels his dismay with humanity through his novels, Gunnell attempts to dispel the pessimism and bring to light Peake's sense of (grim) optimism.
		Mervyn Peake was an outsider who sought out a "monk-like retreat from society whenever possible", yet his imaginary realm of Gormenghast is not an escapist exercise since it is still as violent, cruel, and disturbing as reality.
	www.unc.edu /~hymas/pathfinder/journal.html (323 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Mervyn Peake
		Today Mervyn Peake's reputation rests largely on his three novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959) which became widely known after they were published as Penguin Modern Classics in 1968.
		The younger son of missionary parents who had met and married in China, Peake was born on 9 July 1911 in Kuling, a mountain village where Westerners took refuge from the heat of the Yangtse basin.
		Peake was a thorough-going romantic whose work generally ignored contemporary poetical preoccupations.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3515 (716 words)

	The National Archives \| Research, education & online exhibitions \| Exhibitions \| The Art of War \| Artists
		Mervyn Peake was a man of many talents; a novelist, poet, playwright, painter and illustrator, and famously a children's writer.
		Peake's reputation rests largely on his three novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959), which became widely known after they were published as Penguin Modern Classics in 1968.
		After the war Peake continued to work on his art, but also penned Gormenghast, which was awarded the Royal Society of Literature prize.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /theartofwar/artists/peake.htm (386 words)

	Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Mervyn Peake
		Indeed, Peake makes it fairly clear that his world is to be taken mercilessly on its own terms: it stands or falls by what we make of it, and one who would seek to make something of it by its relation with us will forever be missing the boat.
		Peake augments those feelings by a device that ought not to work, that ought instead to be ridiculous: the names of his characters.
		Peake is not, however, relentlessly grim: there are high notes of humor (if mainly ironic humor), all the more keen for being set in such strange surroundings.
	greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/MervynPeake.php (2747 words)

	BBC - Gormenghast - Peake
		According to Sebastian Peake his father would take a professional tape measure and enlist a passer-by to hold one end of it while he measured around the corner.
		Peake enjoyed practical jokes but they were harmless for the most part.
		Peake was unsure whether he should demand a flat rate or a royalty from Pan Books for the logo he drew them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/gormenghast/std/peake/inspiration.shtml (326 words)

	Mervyn Peake
		Mervyn Peake's masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, is a gothic fantasy whose strange characters' lives are dominated by the labyrinthine castle of Gormenghast and its ancient rituals.
		Peake was also a brilliant artist which perhaps accounts for the unique visual intensity of his creation.
		Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of medical missionary parents.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /p/mervyn-peake (290 words)

	eBay - mervyn peake, Fiction Books, Audiobooks items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Laurence Peake S/C
		Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake - all 3 PB's
		Titus Groan by Mervyn Laurence Peake (1974) PB
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	Mervyn Peake; My Eyes Mint Gold- The Overlook Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Famously witty, eccentric, widely popular, and attractive to women, Peake was also sturdily independent of the literary and artistic movements of his day and achieved cult status even before his early death in 1968.
		Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in revolutionary China, where his parents were missionaries.
		Peake proved to be a miserable and incompetent soldier during World War II, and it was during this unhappy period that he began to write Titus Groan, the first book of the Gormenghast trilogy.
	www.overlookpress.com /biography/peake.shtml (364 words)

	Mervyn Peake Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2005 Mervyn Peake Awards.
		A winner is selected from each of the three categories, and one overall winner is chosen from these by the Mervyn Peake family.
		Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an illustrator, writer and poet, whose work explored the world of fantasy.
	www.parkinsons.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=89635 (142 words)

	Mervyn Peake (1911-68) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If questioned about Mervyn Peake, the average fellow looks at you blankly or mutter something about a lousy series on the BBC a couple of years ago.
		Of late, Peake's best-known work the Gormenghast trilogy – has been co-opted into the “fantasy” genre and the author now has a large number of unhealthy websites devoted to him.
		Fortunately, missionary's son Peake, who was forced to swap the delights of rural China for Eltham at the age of 12, would have been up to the task.
	www.crappublicschools.org /alumni/p/peake.html (306 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Titus Alone / Mervyn Peake
		Yet I still found myself agog at many of the weird wonders that were unfolding before me. Peake generates dazzling imagery in the reader's mind that is quite often unforgettable, and many scenes and players bring to mind Peake's kindred spirits in cinema, Fellini and Gilliam.
		The supporting character of Muzzlehatch proves the book's most vibrant and interesting new cast member; by contrast, Cheetah, a girl introduced near the novel's end and someone who really needs such detailed development, is only sketched out for the reader and one never identifies with her as well as one wants to.
		Peake was working on a fourth volume, but it never got past the rough notes stage.
	www.sfreviews.net /titusalone.html (571 words)

	Gormenghast - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-68)
		Mervyn Peake was born in Kuling, China, the son of a missionary doctor.
		In 1940 Peake applied to work as a war artist, but was refused, and was called up to the army.
		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)

	Kemp Booksellers - Mervyn Peake Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We are the leading specialists in the works of Mervyn Peake and always carry a large and varied stock of first editions of his published works in book and periodical form.
		The periodical devoted to the life and work of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), Peake Studies provides a unique independent forum for criticism and debate for all those interested in Mervyn Peake's life and work as an artist, novelist, poet, and illustrator.
		Peake Studies now has a site on the net where among other things there is a bibliography of Peake's work:
	www.kemp.books.dial.pipex.com /peake.htm (268 words)

	MERVYN PEAKE (1911-1968)
		THEATRICAL FIGURES (UNTITLED X) Mervyn Peake was born on 11 July 1911 in Kuling, Central Southern China, at the summer residence of his father, a missionary doctor.
		On his return to England in 1935, Peake spent three years as a part-time teacher at the Westminster School of Art; while there, he held his first solo show, at the Calman Gallery (March 1937), and married a student of the art school, the painter Maeve Gilmore (December 1937).
		Peake then returned to Sark, with his family, for a period of three years (1946-9), during which he wrote Gormenghast; published in 1950, it received both the Heinemann Award for Literature and a prize from the Royal Society of Literature in the following year.
	www.chrisbeetles.com /pictures/artists/Peake_Mervyn/Peake_Mervyn.htm (574 words)

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