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Peakes Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
By John Watney (introduced by) and Maeve Gilmore (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Overlook Pr
Publication date July 9, 2011
Pages 576
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781590206935
ISBN-10 1590206932
Dimensions 2.75 by 6.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight 3.75 lbs.
Original list price $45.00
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Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.

Peake1s Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. ?The White Chief of the ?Umzimbooboo Kaffirs,1 the early ?Mr. Slaughterboard,1 which foreshadows the Titus books, two plays, ?the Wit to Woo1 and ?Noah1s Ark,1 a broadcast version of ?Mr. Pye,1 and a generous selection of Peake1s short stories, poems and nonsense verses as well as his drawings. Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake1s son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake1s Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake1s birth.

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from Overlook Pr (July 9, 2011); titled "Peakes Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake"
9781590206935 | details & prices | 576 pages | 6.75 × 9.25 × 2.75 in. | 3.75 lbs | List price $45.00
About: Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.
Paperback
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from Overlook Pr (December 1, 1978); titled "Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake"
9780879510916 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form.

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