Small Paperback, Near New Condition, 1993, 262 pages, ISBN 0 7493 0053 1

Titus Alone – Mervyn Peake

Book Three of the now legendary trilogy.

The last vision of Gormenghast, and beyond...

Titus Groan has abdicated. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle of Gormenghast, he has rebelled against the age-old rituals and run headlong into the outside world. There he is engulfed in an extraordinary sequence of events. Figures and landscapes - the enigmatic Muzzlehatch, the tender Juno, the ominous Under-River - loom up with all the vividness of a dream or a nightmare.
This book concludes Mervyn Peake's unparalleled trilogy begun with Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Here is all the invention and vision, combined with tenderness and tragedy, brought to distinctive maturity: for here Titus passes beyond childhood's end...