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Gormenghast: Volume 2 of the Gormenghast Trilogy
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LENGTH18 hrs and 29 mins
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RELEASE DATE04/10/2001
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
In this second volume, Titus comes of age within the walls of Gormenghast Castle and discovers various family intrigues. His twin aunts, Cora and Clarice, have been imprisoned in their own apartments, believing that they alone among the castle inhabitants were free of a hideous disease referred to as "Weasel plague." Titus has discovered secret hiding places in abandoned parts of the castle from which he can watch and learn, unobserved: for he has been "exiled" to grow up with the common children until the age of 15. And so, not feeling connected to his future responsibilities, Titus drifts back and forth between the complicated social world he will grow up to govern, and a world of fantasy and daydream.
©2000 Mervyn Peake; (P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks
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What Members Say
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"As brilliant as Volume 1."
Another great, atmospheric, other-worldly Gormenghast book. It is a continuation of the story threads in the first book and as I suspect no-one will read this book without reading the first, I feel I can review this book by saying that if you enjoyed the strange characters, the dry, black humour and the evil machinations of Vol. 1 then you will definitely enjoy this book as it is as brilliant as the first outing. Excellently narrated.
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"Excellent voices"
I have really enjoyed listening the whole trilogy, not only for the story, but for all different voices the narrator uses. I particularly like the voices of Fuschia and the twins, the story is a little complicated in places, (particularly when I am listening to it whilst doing something else!) So the different voices really help to keep track of what's going on.
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