Peake's Progress

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Strange and wonderful - Sunday Times Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy ranks amongst the most haunting works of twentieth-century literature, yet is was just one facet of his wide-ranging creativity. Peake's Progress includes sketches for the Titus books, short stories, love poetry, nonsense poetry, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb , a satirical drama, and a radio version of his novel Mr Pye . Caricatures, far darker drawings, stage designs and marvellous illustrations for Treasure Island and The Hunting of the Snark reveal his equal talent for the visual arts. Peake was a true original, by turn witty, whimsical, nostalgic, grotesque, savage and disquieting. For me, Peake is the presiding English genius of the 1940s...[his] art throve in the abnormal, heightened sensibility of the war - Duncan Fallowell, Independent Cover Illustration: Mervyn Peake