Chapters (50)
- ABOUT THE BOOK
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- TITLE PAGE
- INTRODUCTION
- A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- TITUS GROAN
- The Hall of the Bright Carvings
- The Great Kitchen
- Swelter
- The Stone Lanes
- ‘The Spy-Hole’
- Fuchsia
- ‘Tallow and Birdseed’
- A Gold Ring for Titus
- Sepulchrave
- Prunesquallor’s Knee-Cap
- The Attic
- The Frivolous Cake
- ‘Mrs Slagg By Moonlight’
- Keda
- ‘First Blood’
- ‘Assemblage’
- ‘Titus is Christened’
- Means of Escape
- ‘A Field of Flagstones’
- ‘Over the Roofscape’
- ‘Near and Far’
- ‘Dust and Ivy’
- ‘The Body by the Window’
- ‘Ullage of Sunflower’
- Soap for Greasepaint
- At the Prunesquallors
- A Gift of the Gab
- While the Old Nurse Dozes
- Flay Brings a Message
- The Library
- In a Lime-Green Light
- Reintroducing the Twins
- ‘The Fir-Cones’
- Keda and Rantel
- The Room of Roots
- ‘Inklings of Glory’
- ‘Preparations for Arson’
- The Grotto
- Knives in the Moon
- ‘The Sun Goes Down Again’
- ‘Meanwhile’
- ‘The Burning’
- And Horses Took Them Home
- COVER
There he stood: Titus Groan, and he turned upon his heel so that the great boulder was never seen by him ever again. Nor was the cave: nor was the castle that lay beyond, for Titus, as though shaking off his past from his shoulders like a heavy cape began to run down the far side of the mountain, not by the track by which he had ascended, but by another that he had never known before.
With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast Mountain, and from everything that belonged to his home.
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Copyright © The Estate of Mervyn Peake 1992
Introduction copyright © China Miéville 2011
Note on the illustrations © Sebastian Peake 2011
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Titus Groan first published in Great Britain in 1946 by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Gormenghast first published in Great Britain in 1950 by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Titus Alone first published in Great Britain in 1959 by Eyre and Spottiswoode
This edition first published in 1992 by Mandarin Paperbacks
Interior illustrations by Mervyn Peake
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COVER
Table of Contents
COVER
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TITLE PAGE
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
TITUS GROAN
The Hall of the Bright Carvings
The Great Kitchen
Swelter
The Stone Lanes
‘The Spy-Hole’
Fuchsia
‘Tallow and Birdseed’
A Gold Ring for Titus
Sepulchrave
Prunesquallor’s Knee-Cap
The Attic
The Frivolous Cake
‘Mrs Slagg By Moonlight’
Keda
‘First Blood’
‘Assemblage’
‘Titus is Christened’
Means of Escape
‘A Field of Flagstones’
‘Over the Roofscape’
‘Near and Far’
‘Dust and Ivy’
‘The Body by the Window’
‘Ullage of Sunflower’
Soap for Greasepaint
At the Prunesquallors
A Gift of the Gab
While the Old Nurse Dozes
Flay Brings a Message
The Library
In a Lime-Green Light
Reintroducing the Twins
‘The Fir-Cones’
Keda and Rantel
The Room of Roots
‘Inklings of Glory’
‘Preparations for Arson’
The Grotto
Knives in the Moon
‘The Sun Goes Down Again’
‘Meanwhile’
‘The Burning’
And Horses Took Them Home