The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination

by G. Peter Winnington

The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels - recently serialized to great acclaim by the BBC - stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. In The Voice of the Heart, G. Peter Winnington, the world's foremost expert on Peake, sets his subject's fiction in context with the poetry, plays and book illustrations which are less well known. He traces recurrent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310229
• ISBN13: 9781846310225
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"