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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.
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