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The life of author-illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) offers almost as many strange twists as his well-known novels, as Yorke demonstrates in this detailed biography. A childhood spent in a British ...

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There is only one Mervyn Peake. An outstanding painter, illustrator, poet, novelist and playwright, Peake is now solidly part of the British literary canon. He was voted one of the 50 best British ...

Elizabeth Bowen called it ” `a sport of literature,’ ” a work of ” `pure, violent, self-sufficient imagination.’ ” Anthony Burgess declared it “uniquely brilliant . . . we are right to call it a ...

With a career encompassing 25 years that included five novels, a handful of plays and thousands of drawings, paintings and sketches, why isn’t Mervyn Peake a more celebrated English literary and ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Gormenghast, the sprawling epic created by British author Mervyn Peake, is finally set to get the adaptation it deserves as it’s now possible to put the “impossible on screen”, according to ...

Mervyn Peake’s depictions of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are among more than 300 of his illustrations to be acquired by the British Library. Today the British Library has acquired the ...