
Television Miniseries: Gormenghast, Spring Waltz, House of Saddam, B Ie I Buni, Great Migrations, Dracula, Frankenstein's Aunt
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ISBN10: 1156636108
ISBN13: 9781156636107
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781156636107
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Gormenghast, Spring Waltz, House of Saddam, Băieţi buni, Great Migrations, Dracula, Frankenstein's Aunt, Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata, Summer Scent, Miniseries, Heroes, Tito, Epitafios, Best Sellers, Shiroi Kyotō, Nurse Jeffrey, Strumpet City, Presenca de Anita, La Isla misteriosa y el capitan Nemo, Echoes, On Wings of Eagles, The Joulukalenteri, Karol: The Pope, The Man, Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story, Prohibition. Excerpt: The Gormenghast series is three novels, by Mervyn Peake, featuring Castle Gormenghast and the title character of the first book Titus Groan. The series consists of three novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959). A novella, Boy in Darkness (1956), tells the story of a brief adventure by the young Titus away from Gormenghast, although it does not explicitly name the castle. Peake had intended to write a series of books following Titus Groan through his life, as well as detailing his relationship with Gormenghast. At least two other books, tentatively titled Titus Awakes and Gormenghast Revisited, were planned; but Parkinson's disease and Peake's ensuing death at age 57 prevented him from writing down more than a few hundred words and ideas for further volumes. Only three pages of Titus Awakes were coherently written, and these appear in the Overlook Press edition of Titus Alone (ISBN 0-87951-427-2) and in the omnibus volume (0-87951-628-3). In the 1970s, Peake's widow Maeve wrote her version of Titus Awakes, which she called Search without End. The Peake family rediscovered this novel at the end of 2009 and are planning to have it published in 2011, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Peake's birth. The series is usually described as a fantasy work. However, the books have no magic and no intelligent races other than humans, which is unusual in...