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Häftad, Engelska, 1998
179 kr
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In the vast halls of Gormenghast, the birth of an heir awakens old rivalries. Gormenghast rises in stone and shadow: an immense, decaying castle where every life is shaped by ritual. BOOK ONE OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone, hidden rooms and ancient observances that make up Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by complex ritual, lost in history and understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. Yet beneath the castle’s umbrageous ceilings, order is already beginning to crack. There are tears and strange laughter, fierce births and deaths, dreams and violence, disenchantment and ambition. Among the servants is Steerpike, a sharp, resentful kitchen boy whose intelligence will take him far beyond his station. While Titus is passed from rite to rite, Steerpike watches, listens and begins to climb. Titus Groan is a classic Gothic fantasy about ritual, ambition and inheritance, set in a castle where the old order is beginning to give way from within. 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New Yorker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
213 kr
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Lost in the frozen polar wastes, an explorer huddles in his shelter, typing, with frozen fingers, the story of his lonely, extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to the nephew he has never seen. With his only companion, the tortoise-like mutant Jackson, the Uncle has gone in search of his ambition and his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion. Illustrated on every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie original drawings, "Letters from a Lost Uncle" is the product of a unique imagination and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange genius of Mervyn Peake. Painstakingly re-originated from Peake's original artwork and typescript, this edition celebrates the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth in 2011 and is re-issued alongside Peake's illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (Methuen ISBN 978 0413 777140).
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
303 kr
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ENTER THE CRUMBLING WORLD OF GORMENGHAST...'A modern classic' Anthony Burgess'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New YorkerGormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.'Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before' C. S. Lewis
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
139 kr
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In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
179 kr
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'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony BurgessBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
179 kr
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DISCOVER THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S LewisTitus Groan, now almost twenty, escapes from Castle Gormenghast, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm.Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.'[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.' Anthony Burgess
E-bok
Engelska, 2011100 kr
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In the vast halls of Gormenghast, the birth of an heir awakens old rivalries. Gormenghast rises in stone and shadow: an immense, decaying castle where every life is shaped by ritual. BOOK ONE OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone, hidden rooms and ancient observances that make up Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by complex ritual, lost in history and understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. Yet beneath the castle’s umbrageous ceilings, order is already beginning to crack. There are tears and strange laughter, fierce births and deaths, dreams and violence, disenchantment and ambition. Among the servants is Steerpike, a sharp, resentful kitchen boy whose intelligence will take him far beyond his station. While Titus is passed from rite to rite, Steerpike watches, listens and begins to climb. Titus Groan is a classic Gothic fantasy about ritual, ambition and inheritance, set in a castle where the old order is beginning to give way from within. 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New Yorker
E-bok
Engelska, 2011233 kr
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He is born to rule Gormenghast, but everything in him longs to escape it. Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, seventy-seventh Earl, is lord and heir.A Gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, with its own ceremonies and age-old laws, Gormenghast has stood so long that its ritual seems stronger than life itself. Titus is born into this inheritance: a castle of eccentric subjects, hidden rivalries and rooms thick with memory.But things are changing. From the kitchens, the clever and ruthless Steerpike begins his climb towards power, while murder, madness and betrayal unsettle the old order. As Titus grows, the role prepared for him becomes harder to bear: to rule Gormenghast is also to be ruled by it.Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy is a classic Gothic fantasy about inheritance, ritual, rebellion and the longing for freedom beyond the castle walls. Baroque, macabre and utterly singular, it remains one of literature’s great imagined worlds.'A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination' The Times 'Dark, dense, baroque and hauntingly beautiful. Peake's lush prose and imagery are a pleasure to any lover of the beauty of the written word,' Carlos Ruiz-Zafron, author of The Shadow of the Wind
E-bok
Engelska, 2011100 kr
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In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.
E-bok
Engelska, 2011105 kr
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Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. The extraordinary inhabitants of the island range from the formidable Miss George in her purple busby to the wanton, raven-haired Tintagieu, 'five foot three inches of sex'. Mr Pye, however, is prone to excess and in the increasingly personalised struggle between good and evil, excess is very nearly his downfall.
E-bok
Engelska, 2011100 kr
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DISCOVER THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S LewisTitus Groan, now almost twenty, escapes from Castle Gormenghast, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm.Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.'[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.' Anthony Burgess
E-bok
Engelska, 2011100 kr
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'The Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of [this] age' Anthony BurgessBOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGYEnter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
291 kr
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Ljudbok
Engelska, 2014157 kr
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In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he''s soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy. Now available as an audiobook.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2016185 kr
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As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2016185 kr
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Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century''s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
E-bok
Engelska, 2023288 kr
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ENTER THE CRUMBLING WORLD OF GORMENGHAST...'A modern classic' Anthony Burgess'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... A work of extraordinary imagination' New YorkerGormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.'Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before' C. S. Lewis
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
273 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
292 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
591 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
216 kr
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This work is adapted from Mervyn Peake's great gothic trilogy, a fantastical world comes to life. In one extraordinary evening of physical theatre you will enter a world of grotesque characters, fantastic ritual and heart-rending drama. It is not for the faint-hearted. David Glass Ensemble revives its award-winning production - one of its greatest hits of the 1990's. "Gormenghast" opens at the Lighthouse Theatre, Poole in May 2006.
E-bok
Engelska, 2012226 kr
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In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.John Constable famously 'pulled off the impossible' (The Times) with his stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's legendary Gormenghast trilogy. Commissioned and produced by the David Glass Ensemble, this gruesome, gothic drama has since become a landmark in the history of adaptation for the stage.
E-bok
Tyska, 2010200 kr
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Gormenghast - das mächtige, labyrinthische Schloß, der Stammsitz der Grafen Groan, gehört zwar keiner Zeit an und keinem bestimmten Ort, doch so, wie Mervyn Peake seine phantastische Geschichte erzählt, bleibt weiter nichts unbestimmt ...Im Gegenteil: jede Szene wird grell ausgeleuchtet, wird geradezu furchterregend nahegerückt. Bewohnt wird das Schloß von erstaunlichen Figuren mit ausgesprochenen Mittelstandsallüren, die der Autor so dicht heranführt, daß man sie beinahe berühren könnte. Und den fetten Swelter zu berühren, die massige Lady Gertrude oder den spinnenhaften Mister Flay, das wäre in der Tat ein Schock.Ein Fantasyroman voll schillernder Figuren und einem labyrinthischen Schauplatz, der skurriler nicht sein könnte. Mervyn Peakes zeitloses Meisterwerk ist das Vorbild für viele moderne Fantasyautoren.»Gormenghast« ist von der Hand eines Zauberers geschrieben.
E-bok
Tyska, 2010200 kr
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Gewalt und Gesetzlosigkeit breiten sich aus wie die Pest in den finsteren Kammern, den babylonischen Gängen, den kahlen, verlassenen Steinhöfen, den spinnwebverschleierten Dachböden Gormenghasts.Beunruhigende Ereignisse, unerklärliche Vorkommnisse tragen sich zu, verdichten sich und werden zu einer tödlichen Bedrohung für Titus, den jungen Grafen Groan, Herr über die geheimnisvollen Provinzen des Schlosses und ihre Bewohner. In einem grauenvollen Finale fällt schließlich die unerwartete Entscheidung.Ein Fantasyroman voll schillernder Figuren und einem labyrinthischen Schauplatz, der skurriler nicht sein könnte. Mervyn Peakes zeitloses Meisterwerk ist das Vorbild für viele moderne Fantasyautoren.»Gormenghast« ist von der Hand eines Zauberers geschrieben.
E-bok
Tyska, 2011177 kr
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Schloss Gormenghast beherbergt das alte Geschlecht der Grafen von Groan. Hinter den Mauern geht die Zeit ihren eigenen Gang. Begleitet von rätselhaften Zeremonien pflegen die Schlossbewohner ihre Gewohnheiten. Im dritten Band verlässt Titus das Schloss, um die Welt kennen zu lernen. Mervyn Peakes zeitloses Meisterwerk ist das Vorbild für viele moderne Fantasy-Autoren.
E-bok
Tyska, 2011155 kr
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»Alles um ihn herum war ein Wunder. Die kleinen Bergblumen und die Geräusche des Wassers und der Vögel und der menschlichen Stimmen. Die freundliche Sonne über ihm erzeugte weniger Wärme als ein Gefühl der Erneuerung im Spiel des Lebens.«
E-bok
Tyska, 2019140 kr
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Titus, der berühmte Held aus der Gormenghast-Trilogie muss die Zeremonien zu seinem 14. Geburtstag über sich ergehen lassen. Nach den nicht enden wollenden Ritualen überkommt den 77. Erben des Hauses Groan ein unbändiger Drang nach Freiheit. Und Titus flieht.»Der Junge war völlig erschöpft. Das Ritual rollte über ihn hinweg wie ein gefühlloser Triumphwagen. Dem jungen Herrn des vieltürmigen Reiches blieb nichts anderes übrig, als nach der Pfeife seiner Beamten zu tanzen … Er sehnte sich danach, seine Wut in Taten zu verwandeln, dem Gefängnis der Vorschriften zu entkommen, Freiheit zu erlangen, wenn nicht für immer, dann zumindest für einen Tag. Für einen Tag. Einen gewaltigen Tag der Rebellion.« Aber der junge Titus kann noch nicht ahnen, welcher Albtraum ihn erwartet, als er jenseits des Flusses, der sein Reich umgrenzt, in eine verhängnisvolle Gefangenschaft gerät.
Del 2 - Gormenghast
Gormenghast / Im Schloss (Gormenghast, Bd. 2)
Inbunden, Tyska, 2010
276 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2011
135 kr
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