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Mervyn Peake

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Gender Male
Death55 years ago
Date of birth July 9,1911
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Lianxi District
Jiujiang
China
Date of died November 17,1968
DiedBurcot
United Kingdom
Spouse Maeve Gilmore
Children Sebastian Peake
Claire
Fabian
Job Poet
Author
Screenwriter
Novelist
Visual Artist
Education Royal Academy of Arts
Croydon College
Eltham College
Plays The Cave
Movies/Shows The Web
Gormenghast
Parents Amanda Elizabeth Powell
WorksGlass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
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Date of Upd.
ID445805

Titus Groan
Titus Alone
Mr Pye
Titus Awakes
Boy in Darkness
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
Letters from a Lost Uncle
Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
A book of nonsense
The Titus Books
The craft of the lead pencil
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Shapes & sounds
Rhymes Without Reason
Complete Nonsense
Ride a cock- horse and other nursery rhymes
Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings
The Sunday Books
The drawings of Mervyn Peake
Sometime Never
Collected Poems: Mervyn Peake
The Inner Landscape
The Gormenghast Novels
Figures of Speech
Selected Poems [of] Mervyn Peake
Prayers and Graces: A Little Book of Extraordinary Piety
Sketches from Bleak House
All this and Bevin Too
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch
Peake Plays One
Treasure Island
High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture : Free Exhibition, 11 November - 27 February
Mervyn Peake (1911-1968): An Exhibition, from 14th June - 8th July 1994
The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Awakes / Titus Alone / Gormenghast / Titus Groan
Eight Illustrations for the Gormenghast Books by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan and Gormenghast: BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
Quest for Sita: Of Ravana the Dark Angel and His Paradise at Lanka : of Hanuman and the Divine Vultures Jatayus and Sampati
Twelve poems, 1939-1960
Gormenghast
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Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death.

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