Titus Alone

Titus Alone

by Mervyn Peake (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Feb 1998

ISBN 10: 0749394870
ISBN 13: 9780749394875
Book Overview: The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy.
Prizes: Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Media Reviews
[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 *
A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination * The Times *
Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before -- C. S. Lewis
Author Bio
Mervyn Peake was born in 1911. He is perhaps most famous for the 'Gormenghast' trilogy which were published between 1946 and 1959 - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone. He has also written a book for children, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, several volumes of poetry and was a gifted book illustrator. He died in 1968.