Gormenghast
Ürünler eklenemedi
Sepete ekleme başarısız oldu.
İstek Listesine ekleme başarısız oldu.
İstek listesinden kaldırma başarısız oldu.
Kütüphaneye ekleme başarısız oldu
Podcast takip edilemedi
Podcast takibi bırakma başarısız oldu.
Standard'ı 30 gün ücretsiz edinin
Gormenghast
17,13£ karşılığında satın al
-
Seslendiren:
-
Simon Vance
-
Yazan:
-
Mervyn Peake
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast trilogy, which reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is Titus Groan, the seventy-seventh Earl, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom.
In this second volume, Titus comes of age within the walls of Gormenghast Castle and discovers various family intrigues. Having been “exiled” to grow up with the common children until the age of fifteen, Titus has discovered secret hiding places in the castle from where he can watch and learn unobserved. Disconnected from 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.
©1967 , 1968 by Mervyn Peake (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Seriye devam et
Eleştirmen yorumları
“[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”
(C. S. Lewis)“This extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time.”
(Washington Post Book World )“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work…a classic of our age.”
(Robertson Davies)“[A] magnificent ediface spun from thin air by a tortured genius.”
(Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture)Excellent voices
Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Would you listen to Gormenghast again? Why?
Yes - I would listen again..almost on a looped tape. It is such beautiful language, transporting you to a world that is so vivid, so strange - yet mysteriously something or somewhere you almost recognise.The descriptions of the people, the castle - and then the utterly surprising eccentricity of the world of Gormenghast...it is hypnotically addictive.
What other book might you compare Gormenghast to, and why?
well I suppose the obvious superficial comparisons are Dickens and Tolkien - but actually I would only compare it to those if I was pushed. Some of the characters can be said to have a Dickensian flavour, and the concept of a mysterious world is Tolkienian...but there are no unknown 'creatures', no blatant 'magic'....that is what brings it so strangely into something one ALMOST recognises...in ones strangest of dreams.What about Robert Whitfield’s performance did you like?
It was marvellous. Brilliant. He captured each character perfectly. I almost can't beleive I did not 'see' it all - he was so vivid in his readingDid you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Made me laugh at times, but not usually because it was ha-ha funny. More because of some line or characterisation that took me by surprise, or that was so peculiar and wonderful - so more of a gasp really.Any additional comments?
A book that is unique, rare and wonderful. It transports you into another realm. I love it to bits.A Classic. Extra-ordinary and most wonderful.
Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
As brilliant as Volume 1.
Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.