The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone Assouline " Los Angeles Times: "Ross

" Los Angeles Times: "Ross King has a knack for explaining complicated processes in a manner that is not only lucid but downright intriguing

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" Jacques Steinberg creates a compelling portrait of people obsessed with reaching a life-defining goal

"The Shadow World" takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking

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The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone Assouline " Los Angeles Times: "RossA doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is