Titus Groan
(Libby/OverDrive eAudiobook)
Author
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Series
Gormenghast trilogy volume 1
Published
Blackstone Publishing , 2010.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive
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Description
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. Peake has created a world where all is like a dream—lush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle.At the center of everything is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. When he is crowned, he is called Child-Inheritor of the rivers, of the Tower of Flints and the dark recesses beneath cold stairways…Child-Inheritor of the spring breezes that blow in from the jarl forests and of the autumn misery in petal, scale, and wing.
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Format
eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
10/25/2010
Language
English
ISBN
9781483069739
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Peake, M., & Whitfield, R. (2010). Titus Groan (Unabridged). Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peake, Mervyn and Robert Whitfield. 2010. Titus Groan. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peake, Mervyn and Robert Whitfield. Titus Groan Blackstone Publishing, 2010.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Peake, M. and Whitfield, R. (2010). Titus groan. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Peake, Mervyn, and Robert Whitfield. Titus Groan Unabridged, Blackstone Publishing, 2010.
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