• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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 other books in the series are the...
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    Titus Groan, a cycle of six BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the books of Mervyn Peake dramatised by Brian Sibley. He also filmed Late Bloomers with William...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Eddings, Andre Norton, Brian Jacques, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist, Mervyn Peake, Ursula K. Le Guin and Frank Herbert. Other favorite books include works...
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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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  • 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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    Jack Peñate (category Peake family)
    English mother and a Spanish father. His maternal grandfather was author Mervyn Peake. He attended Alleyn's School in Dulwich alongside Jessie Ware, The Maccabees...
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  • exhibitions at his gallery, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, including exhibitions on Mervyn Peake, Tessa Farmer, Leonora Carrington, and Stephen Tennant. In 2005, Wynd...
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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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  • 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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    Gormenghast, a miniseries based on the first two books of the trilogy by Mervyn Peake. She also played the title role in Lady Audley's Secret. She appeared...
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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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  • Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (category Works by Mervyn Peake)
    children's picture book written and illustrated by the British author Mervyn Peake and published by Country Life in 1939. It was his first published work...
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  • children's novel by Eleanor Estes the protagonist of 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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