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Author(s): Peake, Mervyn
Reader(s): Degas, Rupert
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0064
Barcode: 9781843795421
Release Date: 01/2011
PEAKE, M.: Titus Alone (Abridged)
Titus Groan has fled the rambling, ruined and ruinous castle of Gormenghast, desperate for a view of the world beyond. But he wasn’t prepared for this. Satellites, death-rays, sinister policemen and underworld outcasts live in a nightmarish contemporary city that feels like something by Wells, Burroughs or Philip K. Dick. Threatened and lost, he begins to miss the home he left; but surely he won’t be tempted back?
Titus Alone is a completely unexpected development, its bizarre and absurd satirical vision placing the dangers of progressive modernity against the deadening force of tradition.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Peake, Mervyn - Author
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
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1 | To north, south, east or west, turning at will… | 08:07 |
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2 | The city was beginning to turn in its sleep… | 04:54 |
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3 | Muzzlehatch had rolled out of the driver's seat… | 05:54 |
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4 | Sickened but thrilled, Titus took a step… | 05:54 |
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5 | He made his way back across the quadrangle… | 06:17 |
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6 | Bewildered, startled as he was, Titus began to laugh… | 06:12 |
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7 | It was very lucky for all concerned… | 06:31 |
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8 | Inspector Acreblade was trying very hard to follow them… | 06:07 |
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9 | 'Then to hell with you child,' said Muzzlehatch. | 06:24 |
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10 | In the late afternoon of the next day… | 02:04 |
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11 | The magistrate leaned forward on his elbows… | 04:47 |
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12 | The magistrate leaned forward and stared at the boy. | 07:04 |
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13 | At first, what was it but an apprehension… | 08:41 |
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Disc 2
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1 | As he flung open the door of her room… | 06:17 |
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2 | The days moved by in a long, sweet sequence of light… | 06:42 |
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3 | So Titus fled from Juno. | 06:05 |
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4 | 'There's something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch.' | 06:09 |
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5 | For all the noise of water overhead, there was silence also. | 07:12 |
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6 | Here, in this fern-hung chamber… | 05:40 |
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7 | 'Now we can talk,' he said. | 06:15 |
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8 | Where Titus leaned against the wall… | 05:44 |
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9 | Now, with a corner of his gaze fixed on Titus… | 06:33 |
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10 | Titus got to his feet and turned to Muzzlehatch. | 04:01 |
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11 | They had to wait until dark before they dared to venture… | 05:55 |
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12 | Titus stamped his foot with anger… | 04:22 |
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13 | Juno had been sitting in her vine arbour for a long while… | 05:36 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 3
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1 | So Juno returned to her home… | 08:45 |
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2 | Meanwhile Titus, whose journeyings in search of his home… | 05:57 |
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3 | There he lay in the dusk of the green room… | 04:25 |
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4 | One morning, not very long after he had fully recovered… | 06:10 |
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5 | As Titus thundered after her, he suddenly felt foolish. | 06:34 |
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6 | The violent death of Veil in the Under-River… | 06:13 |
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7 | Cheeta sat motionlessly at her peerless mirror… | 05:05 |
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8 | 'We have been following you,' said Crack-Bell. | 04:51 |
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9 | When Cheeta and Titus came abreast, they stopped dead. | 04:01 |
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10 | 'You cannot go,' she said. | 05:23 |
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11 | Juno has left her house by the river… | 05:33 |
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12 | Out of the fermentations of her brain… | 04:32 |
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13 | 'I've got a feeling,' said Juno… | 04:59 |
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14 | The sky above the Black House was, of a sudden, filled… | 04:36 |
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Disc 4
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1 | Titus was no longer in any mood for collaboration… | 06:24 |
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2 | Titus, who was about to have risen to his feet… | 05:28 |
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3 | Opening one eye as his body ached… | 04:53 |
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4 | Something was emerging from the forgotten room. | 05:57 |
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5 | While she was speaking, threE Major things took place. | 06:23 |
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6 | Then, suddenly, like something released… | 06:34 |
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7 | Titus was appalled at the scene. | 05:44 |
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8 | Sure enough it was taking on a life of its own. | 05:15 |
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9 | The dawn was now beginning to pick out the leaves… | 04:44 |
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10 | Muzzlehatch turned his great hewn face to the sky. | 04:14 |
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11 | Then a great hush came down upon the Black House… | 04:44 |
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12 | Juno was motionless. | 05:34 |
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13 | Hungry, weary, he made his solitary way… | 05:03 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 05:03:28