A Book of Nonsense: With Drawings and Poems - Couverture souple

Peake, Mervyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720610591 ISBN 13 : 9780720610598

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 1995

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of medical missionary parents. He began to draw, paint and write stories at an early age. His first book of poems, Shapes and Sounds, was published in 1941. He is probably best known for his Titus novels - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone - but other well-known poetry collections include: The Glassblowers and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb. He married Maeve Gilmore in 1937. He was awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Mervyn Peake died after a long illness in 1968.

Revue de presse

Peake deserves a place among the eccentrics of the English tradition alongside Sterne, Blake, Lear, Carroll and Belloc. --Times Literary Supplement

He can try on the strangest clothes without losing his own strange identity . . . a genuinely haunted imagination which stamps everything he wrote or drew. --Guardian

He can try on the strangest clothes without losing his own strange identity . . . a genuinely haunted imagination which stamps everything he wrote or drew. --Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0720610591
• ISBN 13: 9780720610598
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92