Titus Groan -- Mervyn Peake, Paperback Children's Books/Baby-Preschool Translated from the Spanish by

Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

Highground's caretaker and her best friend

OR THE STITCHER WILL REMAKE YOU

A glossary of key terms and comprehensive index

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel--her first to be translated into English--about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution

Titus Groan -- Mervyn Peake, Paperback Children's Books/Baby-Preschool Translated from the Spanish byDreamlike and macabre, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groan first in the Gormenghast Trilogy is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious