![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the most poetic prose I have ever read, and it mires you in a sense of the age of the place and the history of its walls. It’s very descriptive, very luscious and atmospheric, and really pulls you deep into its story, setting, and characters. ![]() The Gormenghast books feature some of the most unique prose I have ever read. Originally intended to be a longer series, the author unfortunately passed away before completing them, leaving us with these haunting instalments in the fantasy canon. The Gormenghast Trilogy is made up of three very lush and sprawling gothic fantasy novels including Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Warnings: Violence, Suicide, Mentions of sexual assault, Some racist language Dreamlike and macabre, Peake’s extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power.Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. ![]()
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