Gormanghast

Murder and madness, seduction and tragedy and a superlatively luscious cast make Gormenghast the top draw on the tube this weekend. The BBC adaptation of Mervyn Peake's fantastic trilogy airs on Space Ch. 39 at 7 p.m. tomorrow and Monday. But you don't What makes a good wife? Four black exercise books, abandoned in a cardboard box for nearly 30 years, suggest an answer. Devotion shapes the pages of a handwritten story created in memory of a husband whose brutal mental decline tested every ounce of her There is only one Mervyn Peake. An outstanding painter, illustrator, poet, novelist and playwright, Peake is now solidly part of the British literary canon. He was voted one of the 50 best British writers since 1945 in a recent London Times critics' poll. Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Today (July 9th) we celebrate the birth anniversary of English writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake, best known for penning the Gormenghast And no, the list does not include Castle Gormenghast. Sorry about that Britain (Labour doesn't field candidates in Northern Ireland). My assessment for the Independent website yesterday was that he had re-done his party conference speech properly Based on the series of books written by Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast tells the tale of various characters within the fictional castle of the same name, particularly focusing on Titus Groan, heir to the earldom of Gormenghast. For fans of the novels .

The four-hour fantasy ''Gormenghast'' arrived on the BBC last year alongside huge hype, a merchandising campaign hawking earrings and cuff links, and newspaper articles pointing out that Sting's daughter Fuchsia and his racehorse Steerpike were named after Arguably the strangest fantasy ever written. Gormenghast is a peculiar, self-contained castle-world of crumbling baroque splendour, where the ruling family is tied to a stultifying life of tedious, never-ending ceremonies that serve no purpose and are only Young Titus Groan is talking about the strange imaginary kingdom of Gormenghast, of which he is the 77th earl. He also could be talking about the lavish, bizarre and stupefying miniseries Gormenghast. Rarely has a hero been left so adrift in storytelling Le Guin (Earthsea, the original trilogy), Mervyn Peake (GORMENGHAST), T.H. White (THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING), Rosemary Sutcliffe, Alan Garner, H.P. Lovecraft (more horror than fantasy, admittedly), Clark Ashton Smith, and well, the list is long. .

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