{"product_id":"titus-groan","title":"Titus Groan","description":"\u003cb\u003eDreamlike, macabre, and richly atmospheric, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitus Groan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e--first in the Gormenghast Trilogy--is one of the most astonishing works of gothic and literary fantasy in modern fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power. Inside Gormenghast Castle, all events are governed by ancient rituals whose origins are lost in time--and the castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Gormenghast Trilogy: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.\" --C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is nothing in literature like Mervyn Peake's remarkable Gormenghast novels . . . They were crafted by a master, who was also an artist, and they take us to an ancient castle as big as a city, with heroes and villains and people larger than life that are impossible to forget.\" --Neil Gaiman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67536712499432,"sku":"9781585679072","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_f93b2458-8050-46ca-829c-5dff2ea02009.jpg?v=1790364798","url":"https:\/\/kuumba-47muwsn1.myshopify.com\/products\/titus-groan","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}