![]() ![]() ![]() In the final part of the trilogy, Titus Alone, Titus, now almost twenty, escapes from the oppression of the Castle, but becomes lost in a sandstorm and is stranded in a big, bustling city. Gormenghast follows Titus from 7 to 17, growing up in a 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. ![]() Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. But things are changing in the castle, and Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.Īs the first novel, Titus Groan, opens, Titus has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals. Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. ![]()
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