Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Peake’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the novels, with individual contents tables
* Features Peake’s original illustrations
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The complete children’s books, fully illustrated
* Rare short stories digitised here for the first time
* All of the poetry collections
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Peake’s rare drawing books, with hundreds of his original illustrations — available in no other collection
* Peake’s rare dramas — available here for the first time in digital print
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
Please note: some posthumous poems and nonsense verses cannot appear in this edition, due to copyright restrictions. When new works enter the public domain, they will be added to the collection as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Gormenghast Series
Titus Groan (1946)
Gormenghast (1950)
Boy in Darkness (1956)
Titus Alone (1959)
A Novel
Mr Pye (1953)
The Short Stories
The Short Stories of Mervyn Peake
The Children’s Books
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
Rhymes without Reason (1944)
Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948)
The Plays
The Wit to Woo (1957)
For Mr Pye — An Island (1957)
Noah’s Ark (1960)
The Poetry Collections
Shapes and Sounds (1941)
The Glassblowers (1950)
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1962)
A Reverie of Bone (1967)
A Book of Nonsense (1972)
Miscellaneous Poems
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Drawing Books
The Craft of the Lead Pencil (1946)
Drawings by Mervyn Peake (1949)
Figures of Speech (1954)
