Mervyn Peake

Quotes

• “This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven.”

• “They represented a sum in short division, but might as well have been some hieroglyphic message from a moonstruck prophet to his lost tribe a thousand years ago.”

• “There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”

• “Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”

• “A spider lowered itself, fathom by fathom, on a perilous length of thread and was suddenly transfixed in the path of a sunbeam and, for an instant, was a thing of radiant gold.”

Books by Mervyn Peake in order

Books by Mervyn Peake in the order they were published, from Ride a Cock-horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (1940) to The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (2011).

1. 1Ride a Cock-horse and Other Nursery RhymesRide a Cock-horse and Other Nursery Rhymes1940
2. 2Captain Slaughterboard Drops AnchorCaptain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor1945
3. 3Craft of the Lead PencilCraft of the Lead Pencil1946
4. 4Titus GroanTitus Groan1946
5. 5DrawingsDrawings1949
6. 6GormenghastGormenghast1950
7. 7The GlassblowersThe Glassblowers1950
8. 8Mr PyeMr Pye1953
9. 9Titus AloneTitus Alone1959
10. 10The Rhyme of the Flying BombThe Rhyme of the Flying Bomb1962
11. 11Inner LandscapeInner Landscape1970
12. 12Figures of SpeechFigures of Speech2003
13. 13Collected PoemsCollected Poems2008
14. 14The Illustrated Gormenghast TrilogyThe Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy2011
15. 15A Book of NonsenseA Book of Nonsense
16. 16Boy In DarknessBoy In Darkness
17. 17Gormenghast TrilogyGormenghast Trilogy
18. 18Letters From A Lost UncleLetters From A Lost Uncle
19. 19Peake's ProgressPeake's Progress
20. 20Selected Poems [of] Mervyn PeakeSelected Poems [of] Mervyn Peake
21. 21The Gormenghast NovelsThe Gormenghast Novels

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