Why You Should Read Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

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A book review of/ introduction to Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST (The Overlook Press, 2020), originally published in 1946, 1950, and 1959.

0:00 Teaser
0:41 Introduction
2:09 Characters, setting
6:32 Gothic literary tradition
9:36 Writing style
11:43 Conclusions

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It should be noted that the “Gomenghast trilogy” was left unfinished at the time of Peake’s death. In fact, many readers think that the 3rd book in the series is notably weaker than the first two as Peake was writing it while ill. While I agree that the first two books are significantly stronger than than the third book and I (obviously) wish that Peake had time to finish his Gormenghast books, I really don’t think this should deter readers from diving into Gormenghast.

Books/authors mentioned:
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alexander Dumas
J. R. R. Tolkien
Daphne du Maurier

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