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Author(s): Peake, Mervyn
Reader(s): Degas, Rupert
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0062
Barcode: 9781843795384
Release Date: 01/2011
PEAKE, M.: Gormenghast (Abridged)
Titus, Earl of Groan, is becoming aware of a world beyond the suffocating confines of Gormenghast, bound by centuries of tradition into a pattern of decaying rituals. He yearns for freedom. Meanwhile the amoral Steerpike continues to forge his way into a position of power, leaving death in his wake and nearly dying in the process. But his rise places him at odds with Titus himself; and only one will survive.
This award-winning sequel displays all of Mervyn Peake’s imaginative brilliance in creating and sustaining the extraordinary world of Gormenghast.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Peake, Mervyn - Author
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
|  | 1 | Titus is seven. | 07:15 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The Countess walked with a frown on her brow… | 05:53 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | Cora and Clarice, although they did not know… | 06:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The husky, whispering sound of a score of flying gowns… | 06:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | He beat his fist into the palm of his other hand. | 06:34 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | When Titus awoke the walls of the cave were leaping… | 05:41 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Titus was to be kept in the lichen fort for a week. | 04:08 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | There was no sound in all Gormenghast… | 07:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | It was on the following afternoon that Mrs. Slagg died. | 07:45 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 10 | A few days later when Steerpike saw Fuschia emerge… | 03:52 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 11 | At the end of the three hours that lay before him… | 03:42 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 12 | Steerpike's return to the castle's heart was rapid… | 06:04 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 13 | It was then that there was a knock at the door. | 06:26 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | At the same time Steerpike was fighting to free himself… | 04:54 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | When Steerpike had come out of his faint… | 06:42 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | Mr. Flay had been sitting for over an hour… | 07:50 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | In January the snow came down. | 07:47 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | While Flay in his wilderness of hollow halls was brooding… | 07:15 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | Dr. Prunesquallor sank back on the couch by the window… | 05:15 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | The Doctor had told the Countess… | 06:32 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | She turned on her heel… | 05:17 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | When Flay heard the door open quietly below him… | 05:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 10 | And so, without a moment to lose… | 05:38 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 11 | It was lucky for Titus that when the Doctor started… | 05:56 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 12 | When at last Steerpike came to a certain door… | 06:24 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 13 | When Flay and the Doctor, in their different ways… | 03:33 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | What he did not realise was that the death… | 04:54 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | A few days after the murder of Mr. Flay… | 06:53 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | The day of the Bright Carvings was at hand. | 06:19 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Then he began to run… | 04:48 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | It was hunger that finally woke him. | 07:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | All of a sudden, Titus knew that he was lying alone… | 05:24 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | There was no one alive in Gormenghast who could remember… | 05:27 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | For little short of a fortnight the rain continued… | 05:08 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | Driven from haunt to haunt… | 06:10 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 10 | It was not that Fuschia did not struggle… | 03:33 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 11 | Now that the flood had reached its height… | 04:48 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 12 | He was altogether exhausted… | 04:33 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Knowing that he had several hours to wait… | 09:46 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The unwitting pageantry of the lantern-lit boats… | 07:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | Titus, as the minutes had passed… | 05:28 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Nevertheless, the time came when the boatman… | 06:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | When she turned her eye back… | 06:30 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | All at once there was a terrible cry from below… | 05:54 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | The boats moved out with much splashing of oars… | 06:37 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Ignoring all precautions, he wrenched the boughs about him… | 04:55 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | When Titus saw that this was indeed so… | 03:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 10 | There was no more rain. | 05:51 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 11 | One evening in the late spring… | 05:34 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 04:49:55