• Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred...
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  • Gormenghast (/ˈɡɔːrmənɡɑːst/) is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic...
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  • Steerpike is a fictional character in Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy...
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  • 1983) was a British painter, sculptor and writer, and the wife of author Mervyn Peake. Gilmore was born in 1917 and brought up in Brixton, south London, where...
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    4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel) Gormenghast (1984) – Steerpike (BBC Radio 4 broadcast based on the Mervyn Peake novel) Plenty (1985) – Mick...
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  • Boy in Darkness (category Novels by Mervyn Peake)
    Boy in Darkness is a novella by English writer Mervyn Peake. It was first published in 1956 by Eyre & Spottiswoode as part of the anthology Sometime, Never:...
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  • Titus Awakes is an early working title applied to a novel planned by Mervyn Peake about 1960, before he became too ill to write. It was to have been the...
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    works by Mervyn Peake. On Wednesday 4 June 2008 the theatre hosted a talk by Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn Peake. A script by Mervyn Peake, The Cave...
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  • explained by dementia with Lewy bodies. The British author and poet Mervyn Peake died in 1968 and was diagnosed posthumously as a probable case of DLB...
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  • Titus Alone (category Novels by Mervyn Peake)
    Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. The other works are Titus...
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  • Titus Groan (category Novels by Mervyn Peake)
    Titus Groan is a novel by Mervyn Peake, first published in 1946. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. The book is set in the huge castle of...
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  • Mr Pye (category Novels by Mervyn Peake)
    Mr Pye is a 1953 novel by English novelist Mervyn Peake, first published by Heinemann. Mr. Pye travels to the Channel Island of Sark to awaken a love of...
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  • Amphisbatinae Fuchsia Groan, a fictional character in the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake Fuchsia (band), a 1970s musical group Fuchsia (film), a 2009 Philippine...
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  • Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Keda, a character in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake Kedah Regional Development Authority (KEDA), a federal agency in the...
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    neurobehavioral decline of Mervyn Peake". Arch. Neurol. 60 (6): 889–892. doi:10.1001/archneur.60.6.889. PMID 12810496. McMillan, Roy; Peake, Mervyn (20 July 2011)...
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    literature include the works of John Webster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl, Thomas Hardy, and Cyril Tourneur. In American...
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  • Gormenghast (novel) (category Novels by Mervyn Peake)
    Gormenghast /ˈɡɔːmənˌɡɑːst/ is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th...
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    RBD and 123I-MIBG myocardial scintigraphy. The British author and poet Mervyn Peake died in 1968 and was diagnosed posthumously as a probable case of DLB...
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  • James Joyce, Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka, Frank Herbert, Thomas Pynchon, Mervyn Peake, Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Luc Godard, J. G. Ballard, and William...
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  • on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It was produced and broadcast by the BBC. First broadcast in June 2000...
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    character in the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by English writer Mervyn Peake. The daughter of Sepulchrave, 76th Earl of Groan, she appears in the...
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    them". Eddie Peake was born in 1981 at London to artist Phyllida Barlow and poet Fabian Peake. His grandparents are writer Mervyn Peake and artist Maeve...
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    English mother and Spanish father. His maternal grandfather was author Mervyn Peake. He attended St. Olave's Preparatory School in New Eltham and Alleyn's...
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  • Letters from a Lost Uncle (category Books by Mervyn Peake)
    Written for children, Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake is a combination of pencil drawing and typed manuscript. It is written in the form of letters...
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    in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Edward Gorey, Colin West, Dr. Seuss, and Spike Milligan. The Martian...
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  • wing commander Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator, best known for his Gormenghast series Mervyn Pike, Baroness...
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    British diplomat Maeve Gilmore (1917–1983), British artist and wife of Mervyn Peake Maeve Harris (born 1976), American abstract painter Maeve Higgins (born...
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  • subsidiary Ginger Pye, a 1951 novel by Eleanor Estes Mr Pye, a 1953 novel by Mervyn Peake Pye, a fictional owl in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series Pye (surname)...
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  • third of the anthology Sometime, Never along with "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake and "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding. Jane, a woman from the...
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  • Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Holes by Louis Sachar Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson...
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