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Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs, the early Mr. Slaughterboard, which foreshadows the Titus books, two plays, the Wit to Woo and Noah's Ark, a broadcast version of Mr. Pye, and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.
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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a playwright, painter, poet, illustrator, short story writer, and designer of theatrical costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the celebrated Gormenghast novels, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, and the posthumously published Titus Awakes, the lost book of Gormenghast finished by Peake's wife Maeve Gilmore after his death. The Gormenghast novels, as well as Peake's other writings Mr. Pye and Peake's Progress, are all available from The Overlook Press.
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“Read by Sebastian and Fabian Peake, the author’s sons, each piece is a little gem, showing not only the author’s prodigious and unflagging imagination, but also an artist’s approach to language. From the strange, Carrollian backwardness of ‘The Weird Journey’ where the narrator falls ‘fast awake’ and drifts into a peculiar travelogue, to the splendidly deprecating ‘I Bought a Palm-Tree’ we hear a writer at the peak of his powers. . . . This recording is a delightful and poignant homage to the writer and his work that will appeal to more listeners than just aficionados.”
(Elizabeth Bentley Good Reading)
(Elizabeth Bentley Good Reading)
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- PublisherThe Overlook Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0879511214
- ISBN 13 9780879511210
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages576
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