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Peake's progress: Selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake [Import] [Paperback]

MERVYN PEAKE (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: PENGUIN (1981)
ISBN-10: 0140046291
ISBN-13: 978-0140046298
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars My literary holy grail, June 12, 2002

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This review is from: Peake's Progress (Paperback)

I had tried to get this book ever since I read the Gormenghast books a few years back, but was informed it was unavailable. Imagine my surprise when it shows up on Amazon as available. I bought it as part of a deal with Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Had a slight twinge of anxeity when Slaughterboard showed up by itself, but Progress showed up about a week and a half later. Talk about worth the wait. Short stories, plays, illustrations, poems, Peake's Progress is a great collection of major work and oddities that showcases this amazing talent. My personal highlights are the Titus Groan in all but name story "Boy in Darkness" and his full length play "The Wit to Woo". If you are a Peake fan, you should have this, if not, why aren't you?

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5.0 out of 5 stars let the author speak, February 28, 2005

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This review is from: Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings (Hardcover)

I need say no more - this alone is worth the book:

THE VASTEST THINGS ARE THOSE WE MAY NOT LEARN

The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Peake!, February 25, 2000

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This book contains all of the great moments of Mervyn Peake, save the Gormenghast books. His poetry is excellent, his short stories are great, and his art is just cool.

If you are a Peake fan, you must buy this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant collection showing the author/artist in nearly every guise
Most people who get to know the work of the English novelist, poet, and artist Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), if they get to know him at all, will do so through the three published... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peake is great
Excellent stuff. The Gormenghast Trilogy is still the book you must read, but this volume is a fine introduction to Mervyn Peake. Btw, ignore the previous reviewer. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect introduction
This is a perfect introduction to the work of Mervyn Peake whose great Gormenghast trilogy reprsents the 'other' tradition in British fantasy writing. Read more

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Lord Groan, Father Noah, Conger Eel, Great Pal, Miss Devius, Treasure Island, Mervyn Peake, White Lamb, Captain Noah, White Shrimp, Bertram Rota, Blind Lamb, Eltham College, October Trellis, Sally Devius, The Glassblowers, Bleak House, Blind Pew, Bull Shad, Bully Shad, Cambridge Circus, King Fly, Rushing River, Shaftesbury Avenue, Simon Sucktashe

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This book cites 20 books:

Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake on 6 pages
Mr. Pye by Mervyn Peake on 4 pages
Treasure Island (Everyman's Library Children's) by Robert Louis Stevenson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)

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Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists (Who's Who) (Who's Who (Routledge)) by Tim Woods on page 269

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