The back of the book
Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder in a world suggested in a tour de force that ranks as one of this century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

About  the book
Titus Groan becomes the 77th Earl of Gormenghast after a series of gruesome events engineered by Steepike, a Machiavellian upstart who is no longer content to be a mere kitchen boy. Steerpike becomes an apprentice to Barquentine, the Master of Ritual, in order to learn all the castle's innermost secrets and also in an attempt to seduce Fuchsia, Titus' sister. The vain and ugly Irma Prunesquallor throws a party to ensnare a husband and quickly falls in love with Bellgrove, Titus' headmaster. One day Titus gives Bellgrove the slip and escapes through a tunnel. For the first time he discovers that servant who has previously been banished from the castle. Flay secretly returns to Gormenghast to spy on Steerpike, who embarks upon a merciless campaign to do away with anyone in the way of his ambitions. As a huge flood overwhelms the castle and threatens to sweep everything away, Titus makes plans for his revenge on the ruthless Steerpike.

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