![]() ![]() showing the poet as well as the draughtsman. Anthony Burgess His novels, said Burgess, are aggressively three-dimensional. Lewis 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. San Francisco Chronicle Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, buto 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. His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing. The Washington Post Peake's style is marvelous. Lewis The true fantasy classic of our time. Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy 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. The New Yorker Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. The Scattering Blog A gorgeous, volcanic eruption. Praise for Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast is grotesque, gory, ghastly, mystical, lyrical, monstrous, mind-bending, and inarticulably beautiful. ![]()
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